[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 185 (Friday, September 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 57267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2371]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-423-809]


Stainless Steel Plate in Coils From Belgium; Extension of Final 
Results of Expedited Sunset Review of Countervailing Duty Order

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for final results of 
expedited sunset review: Stainless steel plate in coils from Belgium.

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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 countervailing duty order on stainless steel plate in coils 
(``SSPC'') from Belgium. Based on adequate responses from the domestic 
interested parties and inadequate responses from respondent interested 
parties, the Department is conducting an expedited sunset review to 
determine whether revocation of the countervailing duty order would 
lead to the continuation or recurrence of a countervailable subsidy. As 
a result of this extension, the Department intends to issue final 
results of this sunset review on or about October 1, 2004.

DATES: Effective September 24, 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. As discussed 
below, the Department has previously determined that these issues are 
complex and that an extension is warranted. On April 1, 2004, the 
Department initiated a sunset review of the countervailing duty order 
on SSPC from Belgium. See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 69 
FR 17129 (April 1, 2004). The Department, in this proceeding, 
determined that it would conduct an expedited sunset review of this 
order based on responses from the domestic and respondent interested 
parties to the notice of initiation. The Department's final results of 
this review were originally scheduled for July 30, 2004 and were 
extended on July 29, 2004. The Department has determined that 
additional time is still needed for its analysis in making its final 
determinations.
    Because of the complex issues in this proceeding, 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 1, 
2004 in accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act.

    Dated: September 20, 2004.
James J. Jochum,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
 [FR Doc. E4-2371 Filed 9-23-04; 8:45 am]
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