[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 85 (Monday, May 4, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24529-24530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-11801]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-508-605]


Industrial Phosphoric Acid from Israel; Extension of Time Limit 
for Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for countervailing duty 
administrative review.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the administrative review of the countervailing 
duty order on industrial phosphoric acid from Israel, covering the 
period January 1, 1996 through December 31, 1996. This extension is 
made pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 4, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dana Mermelstein or Maria MacKay, 
Office of CVD/AD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 
482-2786.

POSTPONEMENT: Under the Act, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) may extend the deadline for issuance of the preliminary 
results of review if it determines that it is not practicable to issue 
the preliminary results within the statutory time limit of 245 days 
after the last day of the month in which the anniversary of the date of 
the publication of the order occurs. The Department finds that it is 
not practicable to issue the preliminary results for the calendar year 
1996 administrative review of industrial phosphoric acid from Israel 
within this time limit. (See Memorandum from the Acting Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, dated April 27, 1998, to 
the Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, ``Industrial 
Phosphoric Acid from Israel: Extension of the Deadline for the 
Preliminary Results of the 1996 Administrative Review (January 1, 1996 
through December 31, 1996''), which is a public document on file in the 
Central Records Unit.)
    In accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 
as amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, the Department will 
extend the time for issuance of the preliminary results of this review 
from May 4, 1998 to no later than August 31, 1998.


[[Page 24530]]


    Dated: April 27, 1998.
Maria Harris Tildon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-11801 Filed 5-1-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P