[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 54 (Monday, March 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 14941]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6869]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-533-063]


Certain Iron-Metal Castings From India: Extension of Time Limit 
for Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 20, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Copyak at (202) 482-2786, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 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 the time limit for the preliminary results to a 
maximum of 365 days and for the final results to 180 days (or 300 days 
if the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary 
results) from the date of the publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    On November 30, 1998, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on 
certain iron-metal castings from India, covering the period January 1, 
1997, through December 31, 1997 (63 FR 65748). On November 12, 1999, 
(64 FR 61592), we published the preliminary results of review. In our 
notice of preliminary results, we stated our intention to issue the 
final results of this review no later than March 13, 2000.

Extension of Final Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore the 
Department is extending the time limits for completion of the final 
results until no later than May 10, 2000. See Decision Memorandum from 
John Brinkman to Holly A. Kuga, dated March 13, 2000, which is on file 
in the Central Records Unit.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 13, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
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