[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 77 (Monday, April 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19550-19551]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-9804]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-846]


Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Japan: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Administrative Review

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

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

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EFFECTIVE DATE: April 22, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doug Campau or Maureen Flannery, 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-
1395 or (202) 482-3020, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

    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. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department's regulations are to the current 
regulations, codified at 19 CFR part 351 (2001).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department published in the Federal 
Register an antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled, flat-rolled, 
carbon-quality steel products (hot-rolled steel) from Japan on June 29, 
1999 (64 FR 34778). We published a notice of initiation of this 
antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel on July 23, 
2001 (66 FR 38252). The period of review (POR) is June 1, 2000 through 
May 31, 2001. On September 4, 2001, Kawasaki - the sole respondent in 
this administrative review - informed the Department that it had not 
made any shipments of subject merchandise during the POR.
    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department shall 
make a preliminary determination in an administrative review of an 
antidumping duty order within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of the date of publication of the order. The Act 
further provides, however, that the Department may extend the 245-day 
period to 365 days if it determines that it is not practicable

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to complete the review within the foregoing time period. In this case, 
the Department requires additional time to confirm that there have been 
no entries of subject merchandise from Kawasaki during the POR. 
Therefore, it is not practicable to complete this administrative review 
within the time limit mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. In 
order to obtain further information on any possible entries during the 
POR, the Department is extending the time limit for the preliminary 
results by 60 days, until May 1, 2002.

    Dated: March 1, 2002
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 02-9804 Filed 4-19-02; 8:45 am]
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