[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 245 (Monday, December 22, 1997)] [Notices] [Pages 66849-66850] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-33350] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [A-428-824, A-475-820, A-588-843, A-580-829, A-469-807, A-401-806, and A-583-828] Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. EFFECTIVE DATE: December 22, 1997. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irene Darzenta, James Maeder, or Erik Warga, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-6320, (202) 482-3330, or (202) 482-0922, respectively. Postponement of Preliminary Determinations On August 19, 1997, the Department initiated antidumping duty investigations of imports of stainless steel wire rod from Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan. The notice of initiation stated that we would issue our preliminary determinations on or before January 6, 1998 (62 FR 45224, August 26, 1997). On December 11, 1997, petitioners made a timely request pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(e) of the Department's regulations for 50-day postponements of the preliminary determinations, until February 25, 1998, pursuant to section 733(c)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Petitioners requested postponements because the Department is either (a) in the process of conducting below-cost investigations (in the Spain and Taiwan cases) or (b) evaluating petitioners' requests to initiate below-cost investigations (in the Italy, Japan, Korea and Sweden investigations), and it is the petitioners' intention that, by requesting postponements, the additional time will allow the Department to include data from any cost investigations in its preliminary determinations. In the investigation of stainless steel wire rod from Germany, the respondents have informed the Department that they are not cooperating in the investigation; as a result, the Department will have no choice but to use the most adverse facts available in its determination. Although no additional time is likely to be needed for the Department to prepare its preliminary determination in the Germany investigation, petitioners are [[Page 66850]] requesting postponement in this case as well so that all of the antidumping cases will remain on the same schedule and, thus, permit the International Trade Commission to cumulate the cases if it deems appropriate to do so. For these same reasons, petitioners also ask the Department to postpone all of the above-referenced cases by the same number of days in order to ensure that they remain on identical time schedules. For the reasons identified by petitioners, we are postponing the preliminary determinations under Section 733(c)(1) of the Act. We will make our preliminary determinations no later than February 25, 1998. This notice is published pursuant section 733(c)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f). Dated: December 16, 1997. Holly Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary.AD/CVD Enforcement, Group II. [FR Doc. 97-33350 Filed 12-19-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P