[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 19 (Friday, January 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4638-4639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2221]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-351-829]


Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products From Brazil: 
Postponement of Time Limit for Countervailing Duty Investigation

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

ACTION: Notice of Postponement of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Countervailing Duty Investigation

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit of the 
preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of 
hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Brazil 
because we determine that additional time is necessary to make the 
preliminary determination.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 29, 1999.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

Postponement

    On October 15, 1998, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') initiated the countervailing duty investigation of hot-
rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Brazil. See 
Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation: Certain Hot-Rolled 
Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Brazil, 63 FR 56623 
(October 22, 1998). On December 1, 1998, the Department deemed this 
investigation to be extraordinarily complicated, and postponed the 
preliminary determination to no later than January 25, 1999. See Hot-
Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Brazil: 
Postponement of Time Limit for Countervailing Duty Investigation, 63 FR 
67459 (December 7, 1998). For the same reasons referenced in our 
earlier postponement, the Department has determined that

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additional time is necessary to make the preliminary determination. 
Therefore, pursuant to section 703(c)(1) of the Act, we are postponing 
the preliminary determination in this investigation to no later than 
February 12, 1999.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) of the Act.

    Dated: January 22, 1999.
Robert. S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-2221 Filed 1-28-99; 8:45 am]
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