Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China: Postponement of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46181-46182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21948]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-570-848]


Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of 
China: Postponement of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of postponement of new shipper antidumping duty review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: August 24, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurel LaCivita or Andrew Nulman, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, US 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4236 or (202) 482-4052, 
respectively.

The 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 Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department's regulations are to the current 
regulations, codified at 19 CFR part 351 (1998).

Background

    On September 30, 1998, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
received a request from Yancheng Baolong Biochemical Products Co., Ltd. 
(YBBP) for a new shipper review of the antidumping order on freshwater 
crawfish tail meat from the People's Republic of China (PRC). See 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China: 
Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Administrative Review, 63 FR 
59762 (November 5, 1998). The Department extended the deadline for 
completion of this new

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shipper review on July 16, 1999. See Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from 
the People's Republic of China: Notice of Extension of Time Limits for 
Preliminary Results of New Shipper Antidumping Administrative Review, 
64 FR 38408 (July 16, 1999).
    On September 16, 1998, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b)(1), the 
Department received a request from respondent, Ningbo Nanlian Frozen 
Foods Company, Ltd., and on September 30, 1998, the Department received 
a request from petitioner, the Crawfish Processors Alliance (``CPA'') 
and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (``LDAF''), to 
conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
freshwater crawfish tail meat from the PRC. That administrative review 
covers the period of March 26, 1997 through August 31, 1998 (63 FR 
58010, published October 29, 1998).
    Due to extraordinarily complicated issues, the Department extended 
the deadline for completion of the administrative review on March 18, 
1999. See Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's Republic of 
China: Notice of Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of 
the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 64 FR 13398 (March 18, 
1999). The Department published a second extension notice on July 16, 
1999, which extended the deadline of preliminary results of the 
administrative review until September 30, 1999. See Freshwater Crawfish 
Tail Meat from the People's Republic of China: Notice of Extension of 
Time Limits for Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and New Shipper Reviews, 64 FR 38409 (July 16, 
1999).

Postponement of New Shipper Review

    On August 6, 1999, we received a request from YBBP to conduct the 
current new shipper review concurrently with the antidumping 
administrative review, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(j)(3). 
Therefore, pursuant to respondents' request and the Department's 
regulations, we are conducting these reviews concurrently. As a result, 
the date of preliminary antidumping duty resuls in this new shipper 
review is September 30, 1999.
    This notice is published in accordance with Section 751(a)(2)(B) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(j)(3).

    Dated: August 16, 1999.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-21948 Filed 8-23-99; 8:45 am]
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