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Administrative Reviews of shrimp anti-dumping orders
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce ("Department") received timely requests to conduct administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain frozen warmwater shrimp ("shrimp") from Brazil, Ecuador, India and Thailand.
The anniversary month of these orders is February. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.221, we are initiating these administrative reviews.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kate Johnson at (202) 482-4929 (Brazil), David Goldberger at (202) 482-4136 (Ecuador), Elizabeth Eastwood at (202) 482-3874 (India), and Irina Itkin at (202) 482-0656 (Thailand), AD/CVD Operations, Office 2, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department received timely requests from the petitioner *1 , the Louisiana Shrimp Association ("LSA"), and certain individual companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b), during the anniversary month of February 2008, for administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on shrimp from Brazil, Ecuador, India, and Thailand. The Department is now initiating administrative reviews of these orders covering 43 companies for Brazil, 81 companies for Ecuador, 336 companies for India, and 165 companies for Thailand, as noted in the "Initiation of Reviews" section of this notice.
*1 The petitioner is the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee.
In accordance with the Department's recent statement in its notice of opportunity to request administrative reviews (see Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review, 73 FR 6477, 6478 (February 4, 2008)), we have not initiated administrative reviews with respect to those companies which the Department was unable to locate in prior segments and for which no new information as to the party's location was provided by the requestor. We have also not initiated administrative reviews with respect to those companies we previously determined to be duplicates or to no longer exist. See "Initiation of Reviews," "Incomplete Requests for Review," and "Requests for Review of Non-Existent Companies" sections of this notice for country-specific lists of the companies for which we did not initiate an administrative review.
Initiation of Reviews
In accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended ("the Act"), we are initiating administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on shrimp from Brazil, Ecuador, India and Thailand. We intend to issue the final results of these reviews by February 28, 2009.
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