[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 24 (Friday, February 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5499-5500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-1844]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-307-815]


Postponement of Final Determination of Antidumping Duty 
Investigation of Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel From 
Venezuela

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

ACTION:  Notice of postponement of final determination of antidumping 
investigation of cold-rolled steel from Venezuela.

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SUMMARY:  The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit of the final determination of the antidumping investigation 
of cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel from Venezuela.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  February 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Maureen McPhillips or Linda Ludwig, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III, Import Administration, 
International

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Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0193 
or (202) 482-3833, 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 (April 1999).

Postponement of Final Determinations and Extension of Provisional 
Measures

    Pursuant to Section 735(a)(2) of the Tariff Act, on January 6, 
2000, Siderurgica del Orinoco, C.A. (Sidor) requested that the 
Department postpone the final determination in this case for the full 
sixty days permitted by the statute. Sidor's request meets the 
requirements of section 735(a)(2)(A) because Sidor is the only 
Venezuelan exporter of the subject merchandise to the United States, 
and the preliminary determination in this investigation was 
affirmative. Further, pursuant to section 733(d) and 19 CFR 
351.210(e)(2), Sidor requested that the Department extend the period 
that provisional measures may remain in effect from four months to not 
more than six months (i.e., suspension of liquidation). This notice 
serves to postpone this final determination for 60 days (i.e., until no 
later than 135 days after the date of publication of the preliminary 
determination). Suspension of liquidation will be extended accordingly.
    This notice of postponement is published pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.210(g).

    Dated: January 18, 2000.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-1844 Filed 2-3-00; 8:45 am]
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