[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 209 (Friday, October 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 64426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27686]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-557-810, A-570-859]


Notice of Postponement of Final Antidumping Duty Determinations: 
Steel Wire Rope From Malaysia and the People's Republic of China

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 27, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Kemp or Tracy Levstik, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Office 5, Group II, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-1276 
and (202) 482-2815, respectively.

Postponement of Final Determinations

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the final 
determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of steel wire 
rope from Malaysia and the People's Republic of China (PRC).
    On March 17, 2000, the Department initiated antidumping 
investigations of steel wire rope from India, Malaysia, the PRC, and 
Thailand.\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigations: Steel 
Wire Rope from India, Malaysia, the People's Republic of China, and 
Thailand, 65 FR 16173 (March 27, 2000). On September 25, 2000, we 
issued the preliminary determinations of these investigations. See 
Notice of Preliminary Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: 
Steel Wire Rope from India and the People's Republic of China; Notice 
of Preliminary Determination of Sales at Not Less Than Fair Value: 
Steel Wire Rope from Malaysia, 65 FR 58736 (October 2, 2000). The 
notice stated that the Department would issue its final determinations 
for the Malaysian and PRC cases no later than 75 days after the date of 
the preliminary determinations. The notice also stated that we extended 
the deadline for issuance of the final determination in the Indian case 
to no later than 135 days after the date of publication of the 
preliminary determination.
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    \1\ The International Trade Commission issued a negative 
preliminary determination in the case involving Thailand, on April 
20, 2000. Therefore, that case was terminated.
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    On September 27, 2000, the Committee of Domestic Steel Wire Rope 
and Specialty Cable Manufacturers (the petitioners) requested that the 
Department postpone the issuance of the final determination in the 
investigation of steel wire rope from Malaysia. On October 4, 2000, 
Fasten Group Import and Export Co., Ltd. (Fasten), a respondent in the 
PRC case, accounting for a significant proportion of exports of the 
merchandise subject to the investigation, requested that the Department 
postpone the issuance of the final determination in the investigation 
of steel wire rope from the PRC. Fasten also requested an extension to 
the imposition of provisional measures.\2\ The petitioners' and 
Fasten's requests for postponement were timely, and the Department 
finds no compelling reason to deny them.
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    \2\ It was unnecessary to extend the provisional measures for 
the Malaysian case because Kiswire received a de minimis margin at 
the preliminary determination, and, therefore, liquidation has not 
been suspended for subject merchandise from Malaysia.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 735(a)(2) of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended, we are postponing the deadline for issuing these 
determinations until February 14, 2001, which is 135 days after the 
date of the publication of the preliminary determinations.

    Dated: October 23, 2000.
Troy H. Cribb,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-27686 Filed 10-26-00; 8:45 am]
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