[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 38 (Friday, February 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9475-9476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4751]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-357-004 and A-357-007]


Carbon Steel Wire Rod From Argentina: Extension of Time Limit for 
Preliminary Results of Five-Year Reviews

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Five-Year (``Sunset'') Reviews.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending 
the time limit for the preliminary results of the sunset reviews on the 
suspended countervailing duty investigation and the antidumping duty 
order on carbon steel wire rod from Argentina. Based on adequate 
responses from domestic and respondent interested parties, the 
Department is conducting full sunset reviews to determine whether 
revocation of the suspended countervailing duty investigation would be 
likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of a countervailable 
subsidy and whether revocation of the antidumping duty order would be 
likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping. As a result of 
these

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extensions, the Department intends to issue its preliminary results not 
later than May 23, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 26, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott E. Smith or Melissa G. Skinner, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6397, or (202) 482-1560 
respectively.

Extension of Preliminary Results

    The Department has determined that the sunset reviews of the 
suspended countervailing duty investigation and the antidumping duty 
order on carbon steel wire rod from Argentina are extraordinarily 
complicated. In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(C)(v) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department may treat a 
review as extraordinarily complicated if it is a review of a transition 
order (i.e., an order in effect on January 1, 1995). See section 
751(c)(6)(C) of the Act. The Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results of these reviews until not later 
than May 23, 1999, in accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act. 
The final results of these reviews will, therefore, be due not later 
than September 28, 1999.

    Dated: February 22, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-4751 Filed 2-25-99; 8:45 am]
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