[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 136 (Friday, July 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 42687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16127]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-807]


Certain Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Turkey; Notice of 
Extension of Time Limits for Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit for the final results in the antidumping duty administrative 
review of certain steel concrete reinforcing bars from Turkey. This 
review covers three manufacturers/exporters of the subject merchandise 
to the United States. This is the fifth period of review (POR), 
covering April 1, 2002, through March 31, 2003.

DATES: Effective July 16, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irina Itkin or Elizabeth Eastwood, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, Office 2, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-0656 and (202) 482-3874, respectively.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act) requires the Department of Commerce to make a final determination 
in an administrative review within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary determination is 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.

Extension of the Time Limit for Final Results of Administrative Review

    The Department issued the preliminary results of this 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain steel 
concrete reinforcing bars from Turkey on May 5, 2004 (69 FR 10666). The 
current deadline for the final results in this review is September 2, 
2004. In accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.213(h)(2), the Department finds that it is not practicable to 
complete the review within the original time frame because this review 
involves a number of complicated issues for certain of the respondents, 
including affiliated producers and high inflation in Turkey during the 
POR. Moreover, one respondent, ICDAS Celik Enerji Tersane ve Ulasim 
Sanayi, A.S., has requested revocation in this review. Analysis of 
these issues requires additional time.
    Because it is not practicable to complete this administrative 
review within the time limit mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), the Department is extending the time 
limit for completion of the final results of this administrative review 
until November 1, 2004.

    Dated: July 8, 2004.
Jeffrey A. May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group I.
[FR Doc. 04-16127 Filed 7-15-04; 8:45 am]
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