[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 219 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61825-61826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29750]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-570-854, A-560-807, A-583-834, A-489-808]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determinations: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel 
Products From Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and 
Turkey

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 1999.


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaVonne Jackson and James Kemp, Office 
V, DAS Group II, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3003 
or (202) 482-1276, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is postponing the 
preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of 
cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Indonesia, 
the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Turkey. The deadline for 
issuing the preliminary determinations in these investigations is now 
December 8, 1999.
    On June 21, 1999, the Department initiated antidumping 
investigations of cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products 
from Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Turkey. See 
Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigations: Certain Cold-Rolled 
Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Argentina, Brazil, the 
People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Japan, the Russian Federation, 
Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela, 64 FR 
34194. The notice stated that the Department would issue its 
preliminary determinations no later than 140 days after the date of 
initiation (i.e., November 8, 1999). On October 19, 1999, the 
Department postponed the date of the preliminary determination in the 
case involving Slovakia. See Notice of Postponement of Preliminary 
Antidumping Duty Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-
Quality Steel Products from Slovakia, 64 FR 57842 (October 27, 1999). 
The Department issued preliminary determinations in the cases involving 
Argentina, Brazil, Japan, the Russian Federation, South Africa, 
Thailand and Venezuela on November 1, 1999.
    The Department has now concluded, consistent with section 
733(c)(1)(B) of the Act, that the four cases at issue here are 
extraordinarily complicated, and that additional time is necessary to 
issue the preliminary determinations, due to (a) the complexity of the 
issues raised in these cases, requiring the issuance of multiple 
supplemental questionnaires, (b) the inherent difficulty of 
coordinating the analysis of cross-cutting issues for several related 
antidumping investigations, (c) the need to allow additional time for 
respondents in Taiwan and Turkey to respond to our questionnaires 
resulting from the recent natural disasters in those countries, and (d) 
an electrical fire at the Department's main building and technical 
problems, which rendered the Import Administration computer network 
inoperative for one week. Therefore, in light of the fact that parties 
to this proceeding have been cooperating, pursuant to section 733(c)(1) 
of the Act, the Department is postponing the deadline for issuing these 
determinations until December 8, 1999.
    This extension is in accordance with section 733(c) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.205(b)(2).

    Dated: November 5, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-29750 Filed 11-12-99; 8:45 am]
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