[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 87 (Thursday, May 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24321-24322]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11285]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-351-828); (C-351-829]


Postponement of Final Determination of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Investigations of Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-
Quality Steel From Brazil

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit of the final determinations of the antidumping and 
countervailing duty investigations of hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-
quality steel from Brazil.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 6, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Ludwig, Office of AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Group III, or Chris Cassell, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement 
Group II, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3833 or (202) 482-4847, 
respectively.

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 1930 
(the Act), as amended, are references to the provisions effective 
January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Act 
by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, all citations 
to the Department's regulations are to the regulations at 19 CFR Part 
351 (1998).

Postponement of Final Determinations and Extension of Provisional 
Measures

    Pursuant to Section 735(a)(2) of the Tariff Act, on February 2, 
1999, Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), Usinas Siderurgicas de 
Minas Gerais, S.A., (USIMINAS), and Companhia Siderurgica Paulista 
(COSIPA) requested that, in the event of affirmative preliminary 
determination, the Department extend the final determination in this 
case for the full sixty days permitted by statute. On February 4, 1999, 
CSN, USIMINAS, and COSIPA also requested an extension of the 
provisional measures (i.e., suspension of liquidation) period from four 
to six months in accordance with the Department's regulations (19 CFR 
Sec. 351.210(e)(2)). On February 12, 1999, the affirmative preliminary 
determination was signed. Therefore, on February 26, 1999, in 
accordance with 19 CFR Sec. 351.210(e)(2)(ii), we postponed this final 
determination until no later than 105 days after the publication of the 
preliminary determinations in the Federal Register (see, Postponement 
of Final Determination of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Investigations of Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel from 
Brazil 64 FR 9474. This notice serves to postpone this final 
determination for an additional 30 days (i.e., until no later than 135 
days after the date of publication of the preliminary determination) as 
originally requested by the respondents.

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Suspension of liquidation will be extended accordingly.
    In addition, because the countervailing duty investigation of hot-
rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Brazil has been 
aligned with the concurrent antidumping duty investigation under 
section 705(a)(1) of the Act, the time limit for completion of the 
final determination in the countervailing duty investigation will be 
the same date, July 6, 1999, as the final determination of the 
concurrent antidumping duty investigation.
    This notice of postponement is published pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.210(g).

    Dated: April 28, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-11285 Filed 5-5-99; 8:45 am]
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