Honey From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results, Partial Rescission, and Extension of Final Results of Second Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

Résumé

In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") is conducting the second administrative review of the antidumping duty order on honey from the People's Republic of China ("PRC"). The period of review ("POR") is December 1, 2002 through November 30, 2003. Petitioners issued a timely withdrawal of their request for an administrative review for two companies named in the initiation of this review; consequently, we rescinded our review of these companies. In addition, we rescinded our review of five companies because they are participating in new shipper reviews covering the periods December 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003, or December 1, 2002, through November 30, 2003. Another company had no exports or sales of the subject merchandise during the POR; therefore, we are preliminarily rescinding our review of this company. We preliminarily determine that three companies have failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of their ability to comply with our requests for information and, as a result, should be assigned a rate based on adverse facts available. Finally, we have preliminarily determined that five respondents made sales to the United