[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 18 (Monday, January 28, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3877-3878]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-2034]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-832, A-122-840, A-428-832, A-560-815, A-201-830, A-841-805, A-
274-804, A-823-812]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determinations: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Brazil, 
Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Trinidad and Tobago, and 
Ukraine

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 28, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles Riggle (Brazil, Canada, 
Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago), Robert James (Germany), Steve 
Bezirganian (Indonesia), Dana Mermelstein (Moldova), and James Doyle 
(Ukraine) at (202) 482-0650, (202) 482-0649, (202) 482-1131, (202) 482-
1391, and (202) 482-0159, respectively, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the 
preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of 
Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil, Canada, Germany, 
Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine.
    The deadline for issuing the preliminary determinations in these 
investigations is now March 13, 2002.
    On January 17, 2002, Co-Steel Raritan, Inc., GS Industries, 
Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc., and North Star Steel Texas, 
Inc. (collectively, petitioners), requested a 30-day postponement of 
the preliminary determinations in these investigations, in accordance 
with section 351.205(b)(2) of the Department's regulations, to permit 
the Department to fully analyze and consider the information and 
argument presented by the parties to these investigations, and to 
permit issuance and receipt of supplemental questionnaires and 
responses by the Department in this preliminary phase of these 
proceedings. Therefore, pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended, and section 351.205(e) of the regulations, and 
absent any compelling reason to deny the request, the Department is 
postponing the deadline for issuing these determinations by 30 days 
(i.e., until March 13, 2002).


[[Page 3878]]


    Dated: January 22, 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-2034 Filed 1-25-02; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P