[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 62 (Wednesday, March 31, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16892-16893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-7221]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-818]


Low Enriched Uranium From France: Notice of Extension of Time 
Limit for the Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

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

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 31, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vicki Schepker or Carol Henninger at 
(202) 482-1756 or (202) 482-3003, respectively; Office of AD/CVD 
Enforcement 5, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

[[Page 16893]]

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 of Commerce (the Department) to complete 
the final results of an administrative review within 120 days after the 
date on which the preliminary results are published. However, if it is 
not practicable to complete the review within this time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend the time limit 
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 
publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    Eurodif S.A. (Eurodif), a French producer of subject merchandise, 
and its affiliated parties Compagnie G[eacute]n[eacute]rale Des 
Mati[eacute]res Nucl[eacute]aires (COGEMA) and COGEMA, Inc. 
(collectively, COGEMA/Eurodif), requested an administrative review of 
the antidumping order on low enriched uranium from France on February 
3, 2003. United States Enrichment Corporation and USEC, Inc. (the 
petitioner), a domestic producer of subject merchandise, requested a 
review on February 28, 2003. On March 25, 2003, the Department 
published a notice of initiation of the administrative review, covering 
the period July 13, 2001, through January 31, 2003 (Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Requests 
for Revocation in Part, 68 FR 14394). On October 27, 2003, and December 
16, 2003, the Department published notices extending the time limit for 
the preliminary results (Extension of the Time Limit for the 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 68 FR 
61184 and 68 FR 69994, respectively). On January 27, 2004, the 
Department published the preliminary results of its review, (Notice of 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Low 
Enriched Uranium from France, 69 FR 3883) The final results of this 
review are currently due no later than May 26, 2004.

Extension of Time Limit for the Final Results of Review

    This review involves complex and novel issues, such as the proper 
treatment of commingled merchandise, the application of the major input 
rule, and the appropriateness of deducting from constructed export 
price (CEP) an amount for countervailing duty cash deposits. In 
addition, the Department needs additional time to consider the 
arguments raised by the parties after the preliminary results of 
review. For these reasons, the Department has determined that it is not 
practicable to complete the final results within the original time 
limit. Therefore, the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the final results until no later than July 26, 2004.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 25, 2004.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement II.
[FR Doc. 04-7221 Filed 3-30-04; 8:45 am]
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