[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 63 (Monday, April 2, 2012)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Advance Notification of Sunset Reviews

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

Background

    Every five years, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') and the International Trade Commission automatically 
initiate and conduct a review to determine whether revocation of a 
countervailing or antidumping duty order or termination of an 
investigation suspended under section 704 or 734 of the Act would be 
likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping or a 
countervailable subsidy (as the case may be) and of material injury.

Upcoming Sunset Reviews for May 2012

    The following Sunset Review is scheduled for initiation in May 2012 
and will appear in that month's Notice of Initiation of Five-Year 
Sunset Review.

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      Antidumping duty proceedings             Department  contact
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Polyester Staple Fiber from the          Jennifer Moats, (202) 482-5047.
 People's Republic of China (A-570-905)
 (1st Review).
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Countervailing Duty Proceedings

    No Sunset Review of suspended investigations is scheduled for 
initiation in May 2012.

Suspended Investigations

    No Sunset Review of suspended investigations is scheduled for 
initiation in May 2012.
    The Department's procedures for the conduct of Sunset Reviews are 
set forth in 19 CFR 351.218. Guidance on methodological or analytical 
issues relevant to the Department's conduct of Sunset Reviews is set 
forth in the Department's Policy Bulletin 98.3--Policies Regarding the 
Conduct of Five-year (``Sunset'') Reviews of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Orders; Policy Bulletin, 63 FR 18871 (April 16, 
1998). The Notice of Initiation of Five-Year (``Sunset'') Reviews 
provides further information regarding what is required of all parties 
to participate in Sunset Reviews.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.103(c), the Department will maintain and 
make available a service list for these proceedings. To facilitate the 
timely preparation of the service list(s), it is requested that those 
seeking recognition as interested parties to a proceeding contact the 
Department in writing within 10 days of the publication of the Notice 
of Initiation.
    Please note that if the Department receives a Notice of Intent to 
Participate from a member of the domestic industry within 15 days of 
the date of initiation, the review will continue. Thereafter, any 
interested party wishing to participate in the Sunset Review must 
provide substantive comments in response to the notice of initiation no 
later than 30 days after the date of initiation.
    This notice is not required by statute but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: March 22, 2012.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2012-7865 Filed 3-30-12; 8:45 am]
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