Honey from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of First Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on honey from the People's Republic of China. The period of review for those entities with an affirmative critical circumstances finding is February 10, 2001, through November 30, 2002. For all other companies, the period of review is May 11, 2001, through November 30, 2002. Two companies named in the initiation of this review had no exports or sales of the subject merchandise during their applicable period of review, and consequently we rescinded the review of these companies. In addition, we rescinded our review of three companies that are participating in new shipper reviews covering the period February 10, 2001, through November 30, 2002. 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 one respondent did make sales to the United States of the subject merchandise at prices below n