[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 150 (Tuesday, August 5, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46164-46165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-19912]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-808]


Stainless Steel Wire Rod from India: Extension of Time Limit for 
the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

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

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EFFECTIVE DATE: August 5, 2003.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending 
the time limit for the final results of the review of stainless steel 
wire rod from India. This review covers the period December 1, 2001 
through November 30, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kit Rudd, Eugene Degnan, or Jonathan 
Herzog, AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III, Office 9, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-1385, (202) 482-0414 and (202) 482-4271 respectively.

Background

    On January 22, 2003, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of a review of Stainless Steel Wire Rod (``SSWR'') from 
India covering the period December 1, 2001 through November 30, 2002. 
See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part: 68 FR 3009 (January 22, 
2003).

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act states that if it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the time specified, the 
administering authority may extend the 245-day period to issue its 
preliminary results by up to 120 days. Completion of the preliminary 
results of this review within the 245-day period is not practicable for 
the following reasons:

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    [sbull] The review involves three companies, all including sales 
and cost investigations which require the Department to gather and 
analyze a significant amount of information pertaining to each 
company's sales practices, manufacturing costs and corporate 
relationships.
    [sbull] Additionally, responses from the three companies required 
the Department to issue multiple supplemental questionnaires which 
further delayed the planned verification schedules.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, we 
are extending the time period for issuing the preliminary results of 
review by 90 days until December 1, 2003. The final results continue to 
be due 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results.

    Dated: July 30, 2003.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 03-19912 Filed 8-4-03; 8:45 am]
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