[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 238 (Monday, December 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69491-69492]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32103]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-859-801]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel 
Products From Slovakia

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 13, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaVonne Jackson, Doug Campau, or 
Abdelali Elouaradia, 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, 482-1784, or (202) 482-0498, respectively.

POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION: The Department of Commerce 
(the Department) is postponing the preliminary determination in the 
antidumping duty investigation of cold-rolled, flat-rolled, carbon-
quality steel products from Slovakia. The deadline for issuing the 
preliminary determination in this investigation is now December 28, 
1999.
    On June 21, 1999, the Department initiated an antidumping 
investigation of cold-rolled, flat-rolled, carbon-quality steel 
products from Slovakia. 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 (June 25, 1999). 
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). The Department issued preliminary 
determinations in the cases involving Argentina, Brazil, Japan, the 
Russian Federation, South Africa, Thailand and Venezuela on November 1, 
1999. On November 5, 1999, the Department postponed the deadline for 
the preliminary determinations for the cases involving Taiwan, 
Indonesia, China and Turkey until December 8, 1999.
    On October 13, 1999, pursuant to section 771(18)(B) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department revoked the non-
market economy status of Slovakia. As a result, the Department 
discontinued the use of its non-market economy methodology in this 
investigation, and has proceeded using its market economy methodology. 
On October 19, 1999, in accordance with section 773(c)(1)(B) of the 
Act, the Department concluded that this case is extraordinarily 
complicated. Consequently, the Department postponed the date of the 
preliminary determination in this investigation until December 8, 1999. 
See Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel 
Products from Slovakia, 64 FR 57482 (October 27, 1999). On November 10, 
1999, the Department initiated a below-cost sales investigation, 
requiring the acquisition and analysis of additional complex data. 
Consequently, the Department has concluded that additional time is

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necessary to issue the preliminary determination. 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 this determination until December 28, 1999.
    This extension is in accordance with section 733(c) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.205(b)(2).

    Dated: December 6, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-32103 Filed 12-10-99; 8:45 am]
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