[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 67 (Monday, April 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16717-16718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-8443]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India; Notice of Extension of Time Limit 
for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review: Stainless Steel Bar from India.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the new shipper review of the antidumping duty 
order on stainless steel bar from India. The period of review is 
February 1, 2001, through July 31, 2001.

DATES: April 8, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cole Kyle, Office 1, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 
20230; telephone (202) 482-1503.

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's (``the 
Department's'') regulations refer to 19 CFR Part 351, April 2001.

Background

    On October 23, 2001, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 
stainless steel bar from India, covering the period February 1, 2001 
through July 31, 2001 (66 FR 53585). The preliminary results for the 
antidumping duty new shipper review of stainless steel bar from India 
are currently due no later than April 15, 2002.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act requires the Department to issue 
the preliminary results of a review of a new exporter or producer 
within 180 days after the date on which the review is initiated and a 
final determination within 90 days after the date the preliminary 
determination is issued.

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 However, section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) allows the Department to extend the 
180-day period to 300 days and the 90-day period to 150 days, if we 
determine the case is extraordinarily complicated.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    There is a pending request from the petitioners that the Department 
initiate a sales below cost investigation in this proceeding. Due to 
the complexity of cost issues and the potential need to request full 
cost of production information from the respondent, we find that this 
case is extraordinarily complicated and the preliminary results cannot 
be completed within the time limit currently mandated by section 751 
(a)(2)(B) (i.e., April 15, 2002). Therefore, in accordance with section 
751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(h)(2), the Department is 
extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results by 
120 days (i.e., until August 13, 2002).
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(2)(B) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: April 2, 2002.
Richard Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement I.
[FR Doc. 02-8443 Filed 4-5-02; 8:45 am]
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