[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 127 (Monday, July 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34911-34912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16598]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-423-808]


Stainless Steel Plate in Coils From Belgium; Extension of Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 2, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elfi Blum or Abdelali Elouaradia, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230 at (202) 482-0197 or (202) 482-1374, respectively.

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's regulations are to the 
regulations codified at 19 CFR part 351 (2000).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 21, 1999, the Department published in the Federal Register 
the antidumping duty order on certain stainless steel plate in coils 
from Belgium (64 FR 27756). On May 31, 2000, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.213, respondent ALZ and its affiliated U.S. importer TrefilARBED, 
Inc., and the petitioners, Allegheny Ludlum, AK Steel Corporation 
(formerly Armco, Inc.), J&L Speciality Steel Inc., North American 
Stainless, Butler-Armco Independent Union, Zanesville Armco Independent 
Union, and the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO/CLC 
(collectively, petitioners), requested a review of the antidumping duty 
order on certain stainless steel plate in coils from Belgium. On July 
7, 2000, we published a notice of ``Initiation of Antidumping Review.'' 
See 65 FR 41942. On August 14, September 5, and September 15, 2000, ALZ 
responded to sections A, B and D, then C, respectively, of the 
Department's antidumping questionnaire. On October 5, 2000, ALZ 
submitted a timely request for withdrawal from the administrative 
review pursuant to section 351.213(d) of the Department's regulations, 
and requested the return or destruction of its questionnaire responses. 
On October 20, 2000, the petitioners objected to ALZ's request for the 
return or destruction of the information submitted in the course of the 
proceeding. In accordance with the Department's practice, we granted 
ALZ its request to remove its questionnaire responses from the 
Department's record. For a detailed discussion regarding the removal of 
questionnaire responses from the administrative record, see Memorandum 
to Barbara E. Tillman through Sally Gannon from Abdelali Elouaradia: 
Return or Destruction of ALZ, N.V. Questionnaire Response, December 19, 
2000 (on file in the Department's Central Records Unit, Room B-099). 
Given that petitioners also requested a review, we continued conducting 
this administrative review pursuant to section 751(a) of the Act. In 
light of the petitioners' request to continue the review process, the 
Department published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of 
review on February 26, 2001 (66 FR 11559-01), applying adverse facts 
available in accordance with section 776(b) of the Act to determine 
ALZ's rate.

Extension of Time Limits for Final Results

    The parties in this proceeding have submitted extensive briefs 
concerning the Department's choice of facts available. In order to 
consider these comments, it is not practicable to complete this review 
by the current deadline of June 26, 2001. Therefore, in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is extending the time 
period for issuing the final results

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of review until no later than October 24, 2001.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and Sec. 351.213(h)(2) of the Department's 
Regulations.

    Dated: June 26, 2001.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, AD/CVD Enforcement Group III.
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