99-1642. Sugar From the European Community: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Five-Year Review

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 3683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1642]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-408-046]


Sugar From the European Community: Extension of Time Limit for 
Preliminary Results of Five-Year Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for preliminary results of 
five-year (``sunset'') review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending 
the time limit for the preliminary results of the sunset review on the 
countervailing duty order on sugar from the European Community. Based 
on adequate responses from domestic and respondent interested parties, 
the Department is conducting a full sunset review to determine whether 
revocation of the order would be likely to lead to continuation or 
recurrence of a countervailable subsidy. As a result of this extension, 
the Department intends to issue its preliminary results not later than 
April 19, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 25, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott E. Smith or Melissa G. Skinner, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: [phone], or [phone] 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Extension of Preliminary Results

    The Department has determined that the sunset review of the 
countervailing duty order on sugar from the European Community is 
extraordinarily complicated. In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(C)(v) 
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department may 
treat a review as extraordinarily complicated if it is a review of a 
transition order (i.e., an order in effect on January 1, 1995). See 
section 751(c)(6)(C) of the Act. The Department is extending the time 
limit for completion of the preliminary results of this review until 
not later than April 19, 1999, in accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) 
of the Act. The final results of this review will, therefore, be due 
not later than August 27, 1999.

    Dated: January 19, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-1642 Filed 1-22-99; 8:45 am]
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