Notice2025-07679
Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof From Mexico and Thailand: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing Duty Investigations
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Published
May 5, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 85 (Monday, May 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18961-18962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07679]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-201-866, C-549-855]
Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof From Mexico and
Thailand: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the
Countervailing Duty Investigations
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable May 5, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose Rivera (Mexico) or Ian Riggs
(Thailand); AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0842
and (202) 482-3810, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of
certain chassis and subassemblies thereof (chassis) from Mexico and
Thailand.\1\ Currently, the preliminary determinations in these CVD
investigations are due no later than May 22, 2025.
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\1\ See Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof from Mexico
and Thailand: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigations, 90
FR 13452 (March 24, 2025).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations
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 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 April 22, 2025, the petitioner \2\ submitted a timely request
that Commerce postpone the preliminary determinations in these CVD
investigations.\3\ The petitioner stated that it was requesting
postponement of the preliminary CVD determinations so that Commerce has
sufficient time to review responses from the respondents, issue
supplemental questionnaires, and consider deficiency comments prior to
the issuance of the preliminary determinations.\4\
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\2\ The petitioner is the U.S. Chassis Manufacturers Coalition.
\3\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Request for Postponement of the
Preliminary Determinations,'' dated April 22, 2025.
\4\ Id.
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In accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner has stated the
reasons for requesting a postponement
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of the preliminary determinations, 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 determinations to no later than 130 days after the date on
which these investigations were initiated, i.e., July 28, 2025.\5\
Pursuant to section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the
deadline for the final determinations of these investigations will
continue to be 75 days after the date of the preliminary
determinations.
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\5\ Postponing the preliminary determination to 130 days after
initiation would place the deadline on Saturday, July 26, 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: April 25, 2025.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-07679 Filed 5-2-25; 8:45 am]
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