[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 28, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36856-36857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-13271]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-485-805]


Certain Small Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line 
and Pressure Pipe From Romania: Extension of Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 28, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tisha Loeper-Viti at (202) 482-7425 or 
Charles Riggle at (202) 482-0650, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement 5, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, 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 to complete the preliminary results 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an 
order/finding for which a review is requested and the final results 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary results are 
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 results to a 
maximum of 365 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an 
order/finding for which a review is requested and for the final results 
to 180 days (or 300 days if the Department does not extend the time 
limit for the preliminary results) from the date of publication of the 
preliminary results.

Background

    On October 1, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain small diameter carbon and alloy 
seamless standard, line and pressure pipe from Romania, covering the 
period February 4, 2000, through July 31, 2001

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(66 FR 49924). On May 8, 2002, the Department published, in the Federal 
Register, a notice to extend the deadline for the preliminary results 
in this administrative review until May 24, 2002. See Certain Small 
Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe 
from Romania: Extension of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 67 FR 30874 (May 8, 2002). On May 10, 2002, the 
Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs filed a request for revocation of 
Romania's non-market economy status.

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 extended time limit. Specifically, 
additional time is necessary to consider the proper surrogate valuation 
of the factors of production. In addition, the Department only recently 
received a request from the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to 
revoke Romania's non-market economy status in either a free standing 
proceeding or in this administrative review. Additional time is 
necessary to consider this request. As such, it will not be possible to 
complete the preliminary analysis in this review by May 24, 2002. 
Therefore, the Department is fully extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results until no later than September 3, 
2002. We intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days after 
publication of the preliminary results notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: May 21, 2002.
Bernard Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement II.
[FR Doc. 02-13271 Filed 5-24-02; 8:45 am]
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