[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 63 (Friday, March 31, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 17256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8013]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-805]


Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe From Mexico: Extension of 
Time Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 31, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Drury (202) 482-0195 or Charles 
Rast at (202) 482-1324, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Ave, NW, 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 these time periods, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary determination 
to a maximum of 365 days and for the final determination to 180 days 
(or 300 days if the Department does not extend the time limit for the 
preliminary determination) from the date of publication of the 
preliminary determination.

Background

    On December 23, 1998, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Mexico covering the period 
November 1, 1997 through October 31, 1998 (63 FR 71091). On August 12, 
1999, the Department published a notice of extension of the time limit 
for the preliminary results in this case to November 30, 1999 (64 FR 
43982). On December 9, 1999, the Department published the preliminary 
results of review (64 FR 68995). The final results are currently due no 
later than April 7, 2000.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the final 
results until no later than June 6, 2000. See Decision Memorandum from 
Richard O. Weible to Joseph A. Spetrini, dated March 23, 2000, which is 
on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the main Commerce 
building.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 23, 2000.
Richard O. Weible,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III.
[FR Doc. 00-8013 Filed 3-30-00; 8:45 am]
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