[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 36 (Thursday, February 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 10065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4458]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-570-840]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Manganese Metal From the People's Republic of China

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 23, 1955.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cameron Werker (202-482-3874), Office 
of Antidumping Investigations, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20230.

POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION:
    On November 28, 1994, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') initiated the antidumping duty investigation of manganese 
metal from the People's Republic of China (PRC) (59 FR 61869, December 
2, 1994). The notice of initiation incorrectly reported the date of the 
preliminary determination as April 27, 1995. The correct date is April 
17, 1995.
    On December 27, 1994, the U.S. International Trade Commission 
determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. domestic 
industry is threatened with material injury by reason of imports of 
manganese metal from the PRC (60 FR 146-147, January 3, 1995).
    Information available to the Department indicates that there may be 
many producers/exporters of the subject merchandise. Further, although 
requested, the PRC government has not yet identified those PRC 
exporters that sold manganese metal to the United States during the 
period of investigation. The Department is still attempting to identify 
these PRC companies. This process of identifying all PRC producers/
exporters of the subject merchandise during the POI requires that we 
determine that this investigation is extraordinarily complicated and 
that additional time is necessary to make the preliminary 
determination. Furthermore, the respondent parties in this 
investigation have thus far cooperated with the requests of the 
Department. Therefore, pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(B) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), we are postponing our preliminary 
determination in this investigation until no later than June 6, 1995.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) of the Act, 
as amended, and 19 CFR 353.15(d).

    Dated: February 15, 1995.
Barbara R. Stafford
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investigations.
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