[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 28, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23172-23173]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-9643]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-802]


Gray Portland Cement and Clinker From Mexico: Notice of Extension 
of the Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

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

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico until June 
14, 2004. This extension applies to the administrative review of two 
exporters, CEMEX, S.A. de C.V., and GCC Cemento, S.A. de C.V. The 
period of review is August 1, 2002, through July 31, 2003.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 28, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Frank or Hermes Pinilla, AD/
CVD Enforcement 3, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
0090 and (202) 482-3477, respectively.

Background

    On September 30, 2003, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register the Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, Request for Revocation in 
Part and Deferral of Administrative Review (68 FR 56262) in which it 
initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), provides that the Department will issue the preliminary results 
of an administrative review of an antidumping duty order within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of the date of 
publication of the order. Currently, the due date for the preliminary 
results is May 2, 2004. The Act also provides that the Department may 
extend the 245-day period up to 365 days if it determines

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that it is not practicable to complete the review within the foregoing 
time period.
    This review involves complex factual and legal issues regarding 
sales of a new type of cement and the reporting of downstream sales, 
and the Department needs additional time to consider these issues. For 
these reasons, the Department has determined that it is not practicable 
to complete the preliminary results within the time limit mandated by 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. Therefore, in accordance with that 
section, the Department is extending the time limit for completion of 
the preliminary results by 43 days. The preliminary results of review 
are now due no later than June 14, 2004. The Department intends to 
issue the final results of review 120 days after the publication of the 
preliminary results. This extension of the time limit is in accordance 
with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: April 20, 2004.
Jeffrey May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-9643 Filed 4-27-04; 8:45 am]
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