[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 174 (Thursday, September 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 54647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2102]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-351-829]


Certain Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from 
Brazil; Extension of Final Results of Expedited Sunset Review of the 
Suspended Countervailing Duty Investigation

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of 
Expedited Sunset Review of the Suspended Countervailing Duty 
Investigation: Certain Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel 
Products from Brazil.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending 
the time limit for its final results in the expedited sunset review of 
the suspended countervailing duty (``CVD'') investigation on certain 
hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products (``hot-rolled 
steel'') from Brazil. Based on adequate responses from the domestic 
interested parties and inadequate responses from respondent interested 
parties (in this case, no response), the Department is conducting 
expedited sunset review to determine whether revocation of the 
suspended CVD investigation would lead to the continuation or 
recurrence of a countervailing subsidy. As a result of this extension, 
the Department intends to issue final results of this sunset review on 
or about October 15, 2004.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 9, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hilary E. Sadler, Esq., Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; 
telephone: (202) 482-4340.

Extension of Final Results

    In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(C)(ii) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department may treat sunset reviews 
as extraordinarily complicated if the issues are complex in order to 
extend the period of time under section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act for 
making a sunset determination. As discussed below, the Department has 
determined that these issues are extraordinarily complicated. On May 1, 
2004, the Department initiated sunset review of the suspended CVD 
investigation on hot-rolled steel from Brazil. See Initiation of Five-
Year (Sunset) Reviews, 69 FR 24118 (May 1, 2004). The Department, in 
this proceeding, determined that it would conduct an expedited sunset 
review of this suspended CVD investigation based on responses from the 
domestic interested parties and no responses from the respondent 
interested parties to the notice of initiation. The Department's final 
results of this review was scheduled for August 31, 2004; however, the 
Department needs additional time for its analysis to analyze the issues 
raised by the parties.
    Because of the complex issues in these proceedings, the Department 
will extend the deadline for issuance of the final results. Thus, the 
Department intends to issue the final results on or about October 15, 
2004 in accordance with sections 751(c)(5)(B) and (C)(ii) of the Act.

    Dated: August 31, 2004.
Jeffrey A. May,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E4-2102 Filed 9-8-04; 8:45 am]
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