[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 6153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2841]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-850, A-588-851, A-791-808]


Notice of Postponement of Final Antidumping Duty Determinations 
and Extension of Provisional Measures: Certain Large Diameter Carbon 
and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe from Japan and 
Certain Small Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and 
Pressure Pipe from Japan and the Republic of South Africa

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

EFFECTIVE DATE:  February 8, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Charles Riggle at (202) 482-0650 or 
Constance Handley at (202) 482-0631, AD/CVD Enforcement, Office V, DAS 
Group II, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

Postponement of Final Determinations

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the final 
determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of certain large 
diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line and pressure pipe 
from Japan and certain small diameter carbon and alloy seamless 
standard, line and pressure pipe from Japan and the Republic of South 
Africa.
    On December 14, 1999, the Department published its preliminary 
determinations in these investigations. See ``Notice of Preliminary 
Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Large Diameter 
Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe from Japan 
and Certain Small Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and 
Pressure Pipe from Japan and the Republic of South Africa'', 64 FR 
69718 (December 14, 1999). The notice stated that the Department would 
issue its final determinations no later than 75 days after the date of 
issuance of the notice.
    Pursuant to section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act, on January 13, 2000, 
Sumitomo Metal Industries (Sumitomo), a respondent in the 
investigations involving Japan, and Iscor Ltd. (Iscor), the sole 
respondent in the investigation involving South Africa, requested that 
the Department postpone its final determinations. Further to those 
requests, the respondents requested that the Department extend by 60 
days the application of the provisional measures prescribed under 
paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 773(d) of the Act. In accordance with 
19 CFR 351.210(b), because: (1) these preliminary determinations are 
affirmative; (2) the requesting exporters account for a significant 
proportion of exports of the subject merchandise in their respective 
investigations; and (3) no compelling reasons for denial exist, we are 
granting the respondents' requests and are postponing the final 
determinations until no later than 135 days after the publication of 
the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register (i.e., until no 
later than April 27, 2000). Suspension of liquidation will be extended 
accordingly.
    This extension is in accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the 
Act, and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2).

    Dated: January 31, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-2841 Filed 2-7-00; 8:45 am]
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