[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19954-19955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07901]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-570-037]


Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products From the People's 
Republic of China: Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Determination 
in the Countervailing Duty Investigation

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

DATES: Effective Date: April 6, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katie Marksberry, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
202-482-7906.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 8, 2016, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
initiated the countervailing duty investigation of certain biaxial 
integral geogrid products from the People's Republic of China. See 
Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products from the People's Republic of 
China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation, 81 FR 7745 
(February 16, 2016). Currently, the preliminary determination is due no 
later than April 13, 2016.

Postponement of Due Date for Preliminary Determination

    Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue the preliminary determination 
in a countervailing duty investigation within 65 days after the date on 
which the Department initiated the investigation. However, if the 
Department concludes that the parties concerned are cooperating, and 
that the case is extraordinarily complicated such that additional time 
is necessary to make the preliminary determination, section 
703(c)(l)(B) of the Act allows the Department to postpone making the 
preliminary determination until no later than 130 days after the date 
on which the administering authority initiated the investigation. We 
have concluded that the parties concerned are cooperating and that the 
case is extraordinarily complicated, such that we will need more time 
to make the preliminary determination. Specifically, the Department 
finds that the instant case is extraordinarily complicated by reason of 
the number and complexity of the alleged countervailable subsidy 
practices, and the need to determine the

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extent to which particular alleged countervailable subsidies are used 
by individual manufacturers, producers and exporters.
    Additionally, the Department notes that we issued questionnaires to 
the respondents in this case on March 1, 2016. The due date for these 
questionnaires is April 7, 2016, which is only six days before the 
unextended preliminary determination date. For these reasons we are 
fully extending the due date until 130 days after the Department's 
initiation for the preliminary determination. Therefore, the deadline 
for the completion of the preliminary determination is now June 17, 
2016.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).\1\
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    \1\ We acknowledge that the Department inadvertently did not 
notify the parties to this investigation of this postponement within 
the timeframe provided in section 703(c)(2) of the Act.

    Dated: March 31, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2016-07901 Filed 4-5-16; 8:45 am]
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