[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 14580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7262]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-201-810]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Mexico: Extension 
of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for preliminary results of 
countervailing duty administrative review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 26, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lyman G. Armstrong at (202) 482-3601, 
AD/CVD Enforcement, Office VI, Group II, 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 issue the preliminary results of a 
review 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 that time period, 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 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 the publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    On September 20, 2002, the Department initiated an administrative 
review of the countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon 
steel plate from Mexico. See 67 FR 60210. The preliminary results are 
currently due no later than May 5, 2003.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    Petitioners have alleged several new countervailable subsidies and 
a number of issues and adjustments in this review that require 
additional consideration and analysis. Therefore, the Department is 
extending the time limits for completion of the preliminary results 
until September 2, 2003. See the Decision Memorandum from Melissa G. 
Skinner, Director, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, to Gary S. 
Taverman, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement 
Group II, dated concurrent with this notice, which is on file in the 
Central Records Unit.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 20, 2003.
Gary S. Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement Group II.
[FR Doc. 03-7262 Filed 3-25-03; 8:45 am]
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