[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 43 (Thursday, March 4, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10203-10204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4863]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-816]


Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from Korea: 
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: March 4, 2004.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending 
the time limit for the final results of the review of corrosion-
resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea. This review covers the 
period August 1, 2002 through July 31, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Ferrier, Kit Rudd, or Paul 
Walker, 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) 482-2667, (202) 482-1385, and (202) 482-0413, respectively.

Background

    On September 30, 2003, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of a review of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat 
products (``CORE'') from Korea covering the period August 1, 2002 
through July 31, 2003. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Reviews, Request for Revocation in Part and 
Deferral of Administrative Review: 68 FR 56262 (September 30, 2003).

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
or finding for which a review is requested. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act further states that if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within the time period specified, the administering authority may 
extend the 245-day period to issue its preliminary results by up to 120 
days.
    We determine that completion of the preliminary results of this 
review within the 245-day period is not practicable for the following 
reasons. This review covers five companies, and to conduct the sales 
and cost analyses for each requires the Department to gather and 
analyze a significant amount of information pertaining to each 
company's sales practices, manufacturing costs and corporate 
relationships. In addition, the Department is analyzing home market 
sales of subject merchandise for further processing into non-subject 
merchandise and subsequent export, as well as issues related to scope 
exclusions of certain products.
    Therefore, given the number and complexity of issues in this case, 
and 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 120 days until September 1, 2004. The final results

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continue to be due 120 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results.

    Dated: February 26, 2004.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 04-4863 Filed 3-3-04; 8:45 am]
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