Notice2025-00326
Paper File Folders From the Kingdom of Cambodia: Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation
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Published
January 10, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 6 (Friday, January 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 1957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00326]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-555-006]
Paper File Folders From the Kingdom of Cambodia: Postponement of
Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable January 10, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shane Subler or Brandon James, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6241 and (202)
482-7472, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of
paper file folders from the Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia).\1\
Currently, the preliminary determination is due no later than January
16, 2025.
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\1\ See Paper File Folders from Cambodia: Initiation of
Countervailing Duty Investigation, 89 FR 91331 (November 19, 2024).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determination
Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in a CVD
investigation within 65 days after the date on which Commerce initiated
the investigation. However, section 703(c)(1) of the Act permits
Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination until no later than
130 days after the date on which Commerce initiated the investigation
if: (A) the petitioner \2\ 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.
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\2\ The petitioner is the Coalition of Domestic Folder
Manufacturers.
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On December 19, 2024, the petitioner submitted a timely request
that Commerce postpone the preliminary CVD determination.\3\ The
petitioner stated that it requests postponement for Commerce to analyze
initial responses and to issue supplemental questionnaires prior to
making its preliminary CVD determination.\4\
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\3\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Petitioner's Request For
Postponement of the Preliminary Determination,'' dated December 19,
2024.
\4\ Id.
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In accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner submitted its
request for postponement of the preliminary determination in this
investigation 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the
preliminary determination and has stated the reasons for requesting a
postponement of the preliminary determination, and Commerce finds no
compelling reason to deny the request. Therefore, in accordance with
section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, Commerce is postponing the deadline
for the preliminary determination to no later than 130 days after the
date on which the investigation was initiated, i.e., March 24, 2025.\5\
Pursuant to section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the
deadline for the final determination of the investigation will continue
to be 75 days after the date of the preliminary determination.
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\5\ Postponing the preliminary determination to 130 days after
the date of initiation would place the deadline on Saturday, March
22, 2025. Commerce's practice dictates that where a deadline falls
on a weekend or federal holiday, the appropriate deadline is the
next business day. See Notice of Clarification: Application of
``Next Business Day'' Rule for Administrative Determination
Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR
24533 (May 10, 2005).
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
Dated: January 3, 2025.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-00326 Filed 1-8-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
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