[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 113 (Monday, June 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 32979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-13329]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-830; A-274-804]


Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod From Mexico and Trinidad 
and Tobago: Extension of Preliminary Results of 2002/2003 Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 14, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tipten Troidl at (202) 482-1767, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Ave, 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 to issue the preliminary results of a 
review within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of 
an order/finding for which a review is requested and the final results 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary results are 
published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within that time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary results to a 
maximum of 365 days and 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 the publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    On November 28, 2003, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders 
on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Mexico and Trinidad and 
Tobago, covering the period April 10, 2002 to September 30, 2003 (68 FR 
66799). The preliminary results are currently due no later than July 2, 
2004.

Extension of Preliminary Results of Reviews

    The Department received sales-below-cost allegations concerning all 
five respondents in these cases. We are in the process of analyzing 
those allegations. Furthermore, we are in the process of working out 
sales and cost verification schedules with respondents. We therefore 
determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of these reviews within the original time limits, and we are 
extending the time limits for completion of the preliminary results 
until no later than October 30, 2004.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: June 7, 2004.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-13329 Filed 6-10-04; 8:45 am]
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