[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 24, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53775-53776]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-26788]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-337-806]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: IQF Red Raspberries From Chile

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation on 
individually quick frozen red raspberries from Chile.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 24, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cole Kyle (202) 482-1503 or Annika 
O'Hara (202) 482-3798; Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), 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. In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the 
Department's) regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 (April 2001).

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    On June 6, 2001, the Department published the initiation of the 
antidumping duty investigation of imports of individually quick frozen 
(IQF) red raspberries from Chile. The notice of initiation stated that 
we would make our preliminary determination for these antidumping duty 
investigation no later than 140 days after the date of issuance of the 
initiation (i.e., November 7, 2001). See Notice of Initiation of 
Antidumping Duty Investigations: IQF Red Raspberries from Chile, 66 FR 
34407 (June 28, 2001).
    On October 12, 2001, the petitioners\1\ made a timely request 
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(e) for a 35-day postponement of the 
preliminary determination until December 12, 2001. The petitioners 
requested a postponement of the preliminary determination because of 
the need for additional time to submit comments regarding the 
respondents'

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supplemental questionnaire responses and for the Department to analyze 
the respondents' data and seek additional data, if necessary, prior to 
the issuance of the preliminary determination.
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    \1\ The petitioners are the IQF Red Raspberries Fair Trade 
Committee and its members.
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    For the reasons identified by the petitioners, and because there 
are no compelling reasons to deny the request, we are postponing the 
preliminary determination under section 733(c)(1) of the Act. We will 
make our preliminary determination no later than December 12, 2001.
    This notice is published pursuant to sections 733(f) and 777(i) of 
the Act.

    Dated: October 18, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-26788 Filed 10-23-01; 8:45 am]
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