Notice2024-26771
Large Top Mount Combination Refrigerator-Freezers From Thailand: Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
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Published
November 18, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 222 (Monday, November 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 90668-90669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26771]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-549-853]
Large Top Mount Combination Refrigerator-Freezers From Thailand:
Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value
Investigation
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable November 18, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benito Ballesteros at (202) 482-7425
AD/CVD Operations, Office IX Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated a less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of imports of
large top mount combination refrigerator-freezers (refrigerators) from
Thailand.\1\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in
this administrative proceeding by seven days.\2\ Currently, the
preliminary determination is due no later than December 3, 2024.
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\1\ See Large Top Mount Combination Refrigerator-Freezers from
Thailand: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation, 89 FR
57860 (July 16, 2024) (Initiation Notice).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
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Postponement of Preliminary Determination
Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in a
LTFV investigation within 140 days after the date on which Commerce
initiated the investigation. However, section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Act
permits Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination until no
later than 190 days after the date on which Commerce initiated the
investigation if: (A) the petitioner makes a timely request for a
postponement; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties concerned are
cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated, and
that additional time is necessary to make a preliminary determination.
Under 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must submit a request for
postponement 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the
preliminary determination and must state the reasons for the request.
Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling reasons to
deny the request.
On November 1, 2024, Electrolux Consumer Products, Inc. (the
petitioner) submitted a timely request that Commerce postpone the
preliminary determination in the LTFV investigation.\3\ The petitioner
stated that it requests postponement, ``so that {Commerce{time} will
have sufficient time to collect and analyze information necessary for
calculating accurate dumping margins. An extension of the deadline for
{Commerce's{time} preliminary {determination{time} is necessary and
appropriate here given the numerous extensions of time that have been
requested by the respondent. An extension of the deadline for the
preliminary determination will allow {the p{time} etitioner sufficient
time to comment on these responses and will allow {Commerce{time}
adequate time to issue supplemental questionnaires and to conduct a
thorough analysis in this investigation.'' \4\
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\3\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Request to Extend Preliminary
Determination,'' dated November 1, 2024.
\4\ Id.
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For the reasons stated above and because there are no compelling
reasons to deny the request, Commerce, in accordance with section
733(c)(1)(A) of the Act, is postponing the deadline for the preliminary
determination by 50 days.\5\ As a result, Commerce will issue its
preliminary determination no later than January 22, 2025. In accordance
with section 735(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the
deadline for the final determination of this investigation will
continue to be 75 days after the date of the preliminary determination,
unless postponed at a later date.
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\5\ Commerce is extending the time period for the preliminary
determination to 190 days after the date of initiation (i.e.,
January 15, 2025). However, because Commerce tolled certain
deadlines in this investigation by seven days, the deadline is now
January 22, 2025.
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This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 733(c)(2)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
Dated: November 8, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-26771 Filed 11-15-24; 8:45 am]
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