[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 28, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4113-4114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1831]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-502]


Certain Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Thailand: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the administrative review of certain welded 
carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand until no later than March 
30, 2004. The period of review is March 1, 2002, through February 28, 
2003. This extension is made pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 28, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Javier Barrientos, Office of AD/CVD 
Enforcement VII, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
2243.

Background

    On March 11, 1986, the Department issued an antidumping duty order 
on certain welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand. See 
Antidumping Duty Order: Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes 
from Thailand, 51 FR 8341 (March 11, 1986). On March 31, 2003, the 
Department of Commerce (the Department) received a timely request for 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain welded 
carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand from Allied Tube and Conduit 
Corporation and Wheatland Tube Company (collectively, the petitioners). 
On April 21, 2003, the Department published a notice of initiation of 
this administrative review, covering the period of March 1, 2002, 
through February 28, 2003 (68 FR 19498), for Saha Thai Steel Pipe Co., 
Ltd. (Saha Thai). On July 29, 2003, petitioners submitted a timely 
request for verification of Saha Thai. The preliminary results for Saha 
Thai are

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currently due no later than December 1, 2003.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    The Department has determined that it is not practicable to 
complete this review within the statutory time limits because this 
review involves complex issues with respect to normal value and U.S. 
price, including duty drawback, duty absorption, major input costs, and 
other issues which require the Department to analyze a significant 
amount of information. Given these facts, it is not practicable to 
complete this review within the time limits mandated by section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. The Department is therefore extending the time 
period for issuing the preliminary results of this review by 120 days, 
from December 1, 2003, until no later than March 30, 2004, in 
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. The final results 
continue to be due 120 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results.
    This notice is published pursuant to sections 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: November 7, 2003.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 04-1831 Filed 1-27-04; 8:45 am]
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