[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57628]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27833]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-570-803]


Bars and Wedges and Hammers and Sledges From the People's 
Republic of China: 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 reviews initiated on 
the antidumping duty orders on bars and wedges and hammers and sledges 
from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). Based on adequate 
responses from domestic interested parties and adequate responses from 
respondent interested parties, the Department is conducting full sunset 
reviews to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders 
would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping. As a 
result of these extension, the Department intends to issue its 
preliminary results not later than January 18, 2000.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 26, 1999.

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

Extension of Preliminary Results

    In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(C)(v) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department may treat a sunset 
review as extraordinary complicated if it is a review of a transition 
order (i.e., an order in effect on January 1, 1995). The Department has 
determined that the sunset reviews of antidumping duty orders on bars 
and wedges and on hammers and sledges from the PRC are extraordinary 
complicated. Therefore, the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results of these reviews until not later 
than January 18,2000, in accordance with section 751(a)(5)(B) of the 
Act.

    Dated: October 19, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-27833 Filed 10-25-99; 8:45 am]
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