[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 210 (Monday, November 1, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 63366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2954]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-501]


Certain Welded Carbon Steel Pipe and Tube From Turkey: Extension 
of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for preliminary results of 
antidumping duty administrative review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: November 1, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Martin Claessens or Jim Terpstra at 
(202) 482-5451 or (202) 482-3965, respectively, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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 June 30, 2004, the Department initiated an administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on certain welded carbon steel pipe and 
tube from Turkey. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 69 FR 39409. 
The preliminary results are currently due no later than January 31, 
2005.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    This administrative review covers a large group of production 
facilities and involves complex issues related to production costs and 
different types of transactions involving the sale of welded carbon 
steel pipe and tube. In addition, because this administrative review 
involves two affiliated companies that the Department has not 
previously reviewed, the Department must analyze large amounts of data 
to which it has not had access before now. Therefore, the Department is 
extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results to 
May 31, 2005. This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) 
of the Act.

    Dated: October 26, 2004.
Jeffrey A. May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E4-2954 Filed 10-29-04; 8:45 am]
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