[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 28147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12860]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-823-810]


Solid Agricultural Grade Ammonium Nitrate from Ukraine: 
Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional 
Measures of Antidumping Duty Investigation

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

ACTION: Notice of postponement of final antidumping duty determination 
and extension of provisional measures: solid agricultural grade 
ammonium nitrate from Ukraine.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: May 22, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jarrod Goldfeder at (202) 482-0189, 
AD/CVD Enforcement, Office 1, DAS Group I, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Postponement of Final Determination

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the final 
determination in the antidumping duty investigation of solid 
agricultural grade ammonium nitrate from Ukraine.
    On March 5, 2001, the Department published its preliminary 
determination in this investigation. See Notice of Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Solid Agricultural 
Grade Ammonium Nitrate from Ukraine, 66 FR 13286 (``Preliminary 
Notice''). The Preliminary Notice stated that, based on a proper 
request by Stock Holding Company Concern ``Stirol'' (``Stirol''), the 
Department was postponing the final determination by 30 days and, 
therefore, would issue its final determination no later than 105 days 
after the date of issuance of the notice (see Preliminary Notice, 66 FR 
at 13287).
    Pursuant to section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), on May 14, 2001, Stirol, the sole participating 
respondent in the investigation, requested that the Department postpone 
its final determination by an additional 30 days. Stirol further 
requested that the Department extend to not more than six months the 
application of the provisional measures prescribed under paragraphs (1) 
and (2) of section 733(d) of the Act. In accordance with section 735(a) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b), because (1) the preliminary 
determination in this case is affirmative, (2) the request for 
postponement was submitted in writing by an exporter who accounts for a 
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise in this 
investigation, and (3) no compelling reason for denial exists, we are 
postponing the final determination until no later than 135 days after 
the publication of the preliminary determination in the Federal 
Register (i.e., until no later than July 18, 2001). Suspension of 
liquidation will be extended accordingly.
    This extension is in accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2).

    Dated: May 17, 2001.
Laurie Parkhill,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group I.
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