[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 81 (Friday, April 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20728-20729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10350]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-830]


Notice of Postponement of Final Antidumping Duty Determination 
and Extension of Provisional Measures: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel 
Wire Rod from Mexico.

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 26, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marin Weaver at (202) 482-2336 or 
Charles Riggle at (202) 482-0650, AD/

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CVD Enforcement, Office V, DAS Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Postponement of Final Determinations:

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the final 
determination in the antidumping duty investigation of carbon and 
certain alloy steel wire rod (steel wire rod) from Mexico.
    On April 10, 2002, the Department published its preliminary 
determination in this investigation. See Notice of Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Carbon and Certain 
Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Mexico, (67 FR 17397). The notice stated that 
the Department would issue its final determination no later than 75 
days after the date of issuance of the notice.
    Pursuant to section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), on April 10, 2002 Siderurgica Lazaro Cardenas Las 
Truchas S.A. de C.V. (SICARTSA), the sole respondent in the 
investigation, requested that the Department postpone its final 
determination. Further to this request, SICARTSA requested that the 
Department extend to not more than six months the application of the 
provisional measures prescribed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 
733(d) of the Act. In accordance with section 735(a) of the Act and 19 
CFR 351.210(b), because the preliminary determination in this case is 
affirmative and the request for postponement was submitted in writing 
by an exporter who accounts for a significant proportion of exports of 
the subject merchandise in this investigation, we are postponing the 
final determination until no later than 135 days after the publication 
of the preliminary determination in the Federal Register (i.e., until 
no later than August 23, 2002). Suspension of liquidation will be 
extended accordingly.
    This postponement is in accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the 
Act, and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2).

    Dated: April 17, 2002
Bernard T. Carreau,
Acting Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-10350 Filed 4-25-02; 8:45 am]
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