[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 213 (Thursday, November 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65834-65835]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28191]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-806]


Silicon Metal From Brazil: Extension of Time Limit for Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 2, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nova Daly or Ron Trentham, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Office 4, Group II, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; (202) 482-0989 and 
(202) 482-6320, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (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

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if the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary 
determination) from the date of publication of the preliminary 
determination.

Background

    On August 30, 1999, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on Silicon Metal 
from Brazil covering the period July 1, 1998, through June 30, 1999, 
(64 FR 47167). On August 4, 2000, (65 FR 47960), 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 120 days after the date of publication of the preliminary results, 
December 2, 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 limit for completion of the final 
results until no later than January 31, 2000. See Decision Memorandum 
from Thomas F. Futtner to Holly A. Kuga, dated concurrently with this 
notice, 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: October 20, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
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