[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 189 (Friday, September 28, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49634-49635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24415]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-828]


Welded Large Diameter Line Pipe From Mexico: Postponement of 
Final Determination of Antidumping Duty Investigation

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

ACTION: Notice of postponement of final determination of antidumping 
duty investigation.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: September 28, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick Johnson at (202) 482-3818; Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 735(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 
requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to issue the final 
determination of an antidumping duty investigation within 75 days of 
the date of the preliminary determination. However, if a request is 
made in writing by exporters who account for a significant proportion 
of exports of the merchandise which is the subject of the 
investigation, in a proceeding in which the preliminary determination 
by the administering authority under section 733(b) was affirmative, 
section 735(a)(2) of the Act allows the Department to postpone the 
final determination until

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not later than the 135th day after the date on which it published 
notice of its preliminary determination.

Background

    On January 30, 2001, the Department initiated the above-referenced 
investigation. See Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty 
Investigations: Welded Large Diameter Line Pipe from Mexico and Japan, 
66 FR 11266 (February 23, 2001). The preliminary determination was 
published in the Federal Register on August 15, 2001. See Notice of 
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Welded 
Large Diameter Line Pipe From Mexico (``Preliminary Determination''), 
66 FR 42841 (August 15, 2001).

Extension of Final Determination

    The respondent in this investigation has requested that the 
Department postpone by 60 days the final antidumping determination. 
Because this request was made consistent with section 735(a)(2)(A) of 
the Act, the Department is postponing the deadline for issuing this 
determination until December 28, 2001, which is 135 days after 
publication of the Preliminary Determination.

    Dated: September 20, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-24415 Filed 9-27-01; 8:45 am]
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