[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39868-39869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16380]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-401-401]


Certain Carbon Steel Products From Sweden: Extension of 
Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for preliminary results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: June 28, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tipten Troidl at (202) 482-1767 or 
Gayle Longest at (202) 482-3338, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

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 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 3, 1999, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the countervailing duty on 
certain carbon steel products from Sweden, covering the period January 
1, 1998 through December 31, 1998 (64 FR 56485). The preliminary 
results are currently due no later than July 2, 2000.

Extension of 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 limits for completion

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of the preliminary results until no later than October 31, 2000. See 
Decision Memorandum from Melissa G. Skinner, Office Director for AD/CVD 
Office VI, to Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, dated 
June 21, 2000, which is on public file in the Central Records Unit, 
Room B-099 of the Department of Commerce. We intend to issue the final 
results no later than 120 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: June 22, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-16380 Filed 6-27-00; 8:45 am]
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