[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 224 (Monday, November 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69734-69735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29630]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-502]


Notice of Extension of the Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Welded Carbon Steel 
Pipes and Tubes from Thailand

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 20, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Javier Barrientos or Samantha 
Denenberg, AD/CVD Enforcement Group III, Office 7, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-2243 and (202) 482-1386, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act) are to the provisions effective January 1, 
1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Act by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) 
regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 (April 1999).

Background

    On May 1, 2000, the Department published a notice of initiation of 
the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on Certain 
Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from Thailand, covering the period 
March 1, 1999 through February 29, 2000 (65 FR 25303). The preliminary 
results are currently due no later than December 1, 2000.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Because of the complex issues enumerated in the Memorandum from 
Barbara E. Tillman to Joseph A. Spetrini, Extension of Time Limit for 
the

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Preliminary Results of Administrative Review of Certain Welded Carbon 
Steel Pipes & Tubes from Thailand, dated November 6, 2000, and on file 
in the Central Records Unit (CRU) of the Main Commerce Building, Room 
B-099, we find that it is not practicable to complete this review by 
the scheduled deadline. Therefore, in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is extending the time period 
for issuing the preliminary results of review by 120 days (i.e., until 
March 31, 2001).

    Dated: November 6, 2000.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, AD/CVD Enforcement Group III.
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