[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 71 (Friday, April 12, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 17967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-8960]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-802]


Gray Portland Cement and Clinker: Notice of Extension of Time 
Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limits for preliminary results of 
antidumping duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico. The period 
of review is August 1, 2000, through July 31, 2001.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 12, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla or Mark Ross, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3477 or (202) 482-4794, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Act.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) received a request to 
conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on gray 
portland cement and clinker from Mexico. On October 1, 2001, the 
Department published the notice of initiation for this administrative 
review (66 FR 49924). The period of review is August 1, 2000, through 
July 31, 2001. The deadline for completing the preliminary results of 
the review is May 3, 2002.
    In this review, complex issues exist regarding product matching 
(e.g., comparability between the U.S. cement product specifications and 
the new Mexican cement product specifications). Due to the complexity 
of these issues and the constraints on the Department's resources 
available to analyze it appropriately, given the number of proceedings 
currently before the Department, the Department determines that it is 
not practicable to complete the preliminary results of this review 
within the statutory time limit. Therefore, the Department is extending 
the time limit for the preliminary results in this review to August 31, 
2002. This extension of the time limit is in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. The Department intends to issue the final 
results of review 120 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results.

    Dated: April 5, 2002.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-8960 Filed 4-11-02; 8:45 am]
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