[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11519-11520]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5776]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-806]


Silicon Metal From Brazil: Extension of Time Limit for 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 11, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maisha Cryor at (202) 482-5831 or

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Thomas Futtner at (202) 482-3814, Group II, Office 4, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave, 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 of Commerce (the Department) to make a 
preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested and a 
final determination within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary determination is 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 determination to a maximum of 365 days after the 
last day of the anniversary month.

Background

    On August 27, 2002, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on Silicon Metal 
from Brazil, covering the period July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002. 
See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 67 FR 55000, 55001 (August 
27, 2002). The preliminary results are currently due no later than 
April 2, 2003.

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 original time limit. Therefore, the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than July 22, 2003. See Decision 
Memorandum from Holly A. Kuga, Senior Office Director, to Bernard T. 
Carreau, Deputy Assistant Secretary, dated concurrently with this 
notice, which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the 
main Commerce building. We intend to issue the final results no later 
than 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 4, 2003.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 03-5776 Filed 3-10-03; 8:45 am]
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