[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 12, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11092-11093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5885]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-807]


Certain Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings from Thailand: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 12, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zev Primor at (202) 482-4114 or Tom 
Futtner at (202) 482-3814, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement 4, Group II, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

Time Limits

Statutory Time Limits
    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to make a 
preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested and a 
final determination within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary determination is published. However, if it is not 
practicable to complete the review within these time periods, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend the time limit 
for the preliminary

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determination to a maximum of 365 days and for the final determination 
to 180 days (or 300 days if the Department does not extend the time 
limit for the preliminary determination) from the date of publication 
of the preliminary determination.
Background
    On Ocotber1, 2001, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain 
carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Thailand, covering the period 
July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001 (66 FR 49924). The preliminary 
results are currently due no later than April 1, 2002.
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore, the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than July 31, 2002. See Decision 
Memorandum from Holly Kuga to Bernard Carreau, dated concurrently with 
this notice, which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 
of the main Commerce building. We intend to issue the final results no 
later than 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results 
notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    March 5, 2002
Bernard T. Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 02-5885 Filed 3-11-02; 8:45 am]
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