[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 13, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 31888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14916]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-817, C-549-818, and C-791-810]


Notice of Postponement of Final Antidumping Duty Determination: 
Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand; and Notice 
of Postponement of Final Countervailing Duty Determinations: Certain 
Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand and South Africa

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

ACTION: Notice of Postponement of Final Antidumping Duty Determination 
and Final Countervailing Duty Determinations.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: June 13, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Angelica Mendoza or Nancy Decker 
(antidumping duty investigation) at (202) 482-3019 and (202) 482-0196, 
respectively, Office 8, and Dana Mermelstein (countervailing duty 
investigations) at (202) 482-1391, Office 7, AD/CVD Enforcement, Group 
III, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce (Department) 
regulations are to the regulations at 19 CFR part 351 (April 2000).

Background

    This antidumping duty investigation was initiated on December 4, 
2000. See Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigation: Certain Hot-
Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Argentina, India, Indonesia, 
Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, the People's Republic of China, Romania, 
South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Ukraine, 65 FR 77568 (December 12, 
2000). The period of investigation (POI) is October 1, 1999 through 
September 30, 2000. On May 3, 2001, the Department published the notice 
of preliminary determination. See Notice of Preliminary Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat 
Products From Thailand, 66 FR 22199.
    On March 23, 2001, petitioners submitted letters requesting 
alignment of the final determinations in the countervailing duty 
investigations involving Thailand and South Africa with the final 
determinations of the companion antidumping duty investigations of 
certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Argentina, India, 
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, the People's Republic of China, 
Romania, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand and Ukraine. In accordance with 
section 705(a)(1) of the Act, we aligned the final determinations in 
these countervailing duty investigations with the final determinations 
in the companion antidumping investigations of certain hot-rolled 
carbon steel flat products. See Notice of Preliminary Affirmative 
Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment With Final Antidumping 
Duty Determinations: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From 
Thailand, 66 FR 20251 (April 20, 2001), and Notice of Preliminary 
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment With Final 
Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat 
Products From South Africa, 66 FR 20261 (April 20, 2001).

Postponement of Final Determinations and Extension of Provisional 
Measures

    Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides that a final determination 
may be postponed until not later than 135 days after the publication of 
the preliminary determination if, in the event of an affirmative 
determination, a request for such postponement is made by exporters who 
account for a significant proportion of exports of the subject 
merchandise, or in the event of a negative preliminary determination, a 
request for such postponement is made by petitioners. The Department's 
regulations, at 19 CFR 351.210(e)(2), require that requests by 
respondents for postponement of a final determination be accompanied by 
a request for extension of provisional measures from a four-month 
period to not more than six months.
    On May 1, 2001, Sahaviriya Steel Industries (respondent) requested 
that the Department postpone its final determination until not later 
than 135 days after the date of the publication of the preliminary 
determination in the Federal Register and requested an extension of the 
provisional measures. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.210(b), because (1) 
our preliminary determination is affirmative, (2) the respondent 
requesting the postponement accounts for a significant proportion of 
exports of the subject merchandise, and (3) no compelling reasons for 
denial exist, we are granting the respondent's request and are 
postponing the final determination until not later than 135 days after 
the publication of the preliminary determination in the Federal 
Register. Suspension of liquidation will be extended accordingly. 
Through this postponement of the final antidumping duty determination, 
we are also postponing the final countervailing duty determinations of 
certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Thailand and South 
Africa which have been aligned with the companion antidumping duty 
investigations pursuant to section 705(a)(1) of the Act. This notice is 
published in accordance with section 735(a)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.210(b)(2).

    Dated: June 4, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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