Fresh Kiwifruit From New Zealand: Postponement of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review (A-614-801)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Fresh Kiwifruit From New Zealand: Postponement of Preliminary

Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review (A-614-801)

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Extension of time limits for preliminary results of antidumping

duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit of the

preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review of

the antidumping finding on fresh kiwifruit from New Zealand covering

the period June 1, 1997, through May 31, 1998, since it is not

practicable to complete the review within the time limit mandated by

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 21, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Stoltz or Jim Terpstra,

Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Enforcement, Office Four,

Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-4474 and 482-3965,

respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are

references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective

date of the amendments made to the Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements

Act.

Background

On July 28, 1998 (63 FR 40258) the Department of Commerce (the

Department) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty

order on fresh kiwifruit from New Zealand covering the period June 1,

1997, through May 31, 1998. In our notice of initiation, we stated that

we intended to issue the final results of this review no later than

June 30, 1999. The current deadline for the preliminary results is

March 2, 1999.

Postponement of Preliminary Results of Review

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act requires the Department to make a

preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the

anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested and a

final determination within 120 days after the date on which the

preliminary determination is published. However, if it is not

practicable to complete the review within the time period, section

751(a)(3)(A) allows the Department to extend this time period to 365

days and 180 days, respectively.

We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary

results of this review within the original time frame because of the

numerous novel and complex legal and methodological issues in this

review (see Decision Memorandum from Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy

Assistant Secretary, to Robert S. LaRussa, Assistant Secretary).

Accordingly, the deadline for issuing the preliminary results of

this review is now due no later than June 30, 1999.

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The deadline for issuing the final results of this review will be no

later than 120 days from the publication of the preliminary results.

This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the

Act (19 U.S.C. 1675 (a)(3)(A)).

Dated: January 14, 1999.

Holly Kuga,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

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