[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 204 (Friday, October 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 62026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2804]


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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 Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty 
order on gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico until December 
20, 2004. This extension applies to one manufacturer/exporter, CEMEX, 
S.A. de C.V., and its affiliate, GCC Cemento, S.A. de C.V. The period 
of review is August 1, 2002, through July 31, 2003.

DATES: Effective October 24, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Frank or Hermes Pinilla, 
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. On April 28, 2004, the 
Department published a notice extending the date for issuing the 
preliminary results of this review until June 14, 2004. See Gray 
Portland Cement and Clinker From Mexico: Notice of Extension of the 
Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 69 FR 23172. On June 22, 2004, the Department 
published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of this 
administrative review. See Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Gray Portland Cement and Clinker From Mexico, 69 
FR 34647.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to issue the final results of an 
antidumping duty administrative review within 120 days of the date on 
which the preliminary results are published. Currently, the due date 
for the final results is October 20, 2004. The Act also provides that 
the Department may extend the 120-day period to 180 days, if it 
determines 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 Department needs additional time 
to consider the issue. For this reason, the Department has determined 
that it is not practicable to complete the final 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 final results by 60 days.
    The final results of review are now due no later than December 20, 
2004. This extension of the time limit is in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: October 18, 2004.
Jeffrey A. May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
 [FR Doc. E4-2804 Filed 10-21-04; 8:45 am]
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