[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 61276]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29462]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-489-502]


Certain Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Turkey: 
Extension of Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Review

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

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

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EFFECTIVE DATE: November 10, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Grossman at (202) 482-2786, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Time Limits

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an 
order/finding for which a review is requested and a final determination 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary determination 
is published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within the time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend these deadlines to a maximum of 365 days and 180 
days, respectively.

Background

    On April 30, 1999, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain 
welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey, covering the period 
January 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998 (64 FR 23269). The 
preliminary results are currently due no later than December 1, 1999.

Extension of Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore the 
Department is extending the time limits for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than March 30, 2000. See Decision 
Memorandum from Bernard Carreau to Robert S. LaRussa, dated October 28, 
1999, which is on file in the Central Records Unit. We intend to issue 
the final results no later than 120 days after the publication of the 
preliminary results notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: October 28, 1999.
Bernard Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 99-29462 Filed 11-9-99; 8:45 am]
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