[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 8, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11193-11194]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-973]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-570-822


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for the Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Helical Spring Lock 
Washers from the People's Republic of China

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 8, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marin Weaver at (202) 482-2336 or 
Cathy Feig at (202) 481-3962, AD/CVD Operations, Office 8, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 9, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of the 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on helical spring 
lock washers from the People's Republic of China. See Certain Helical 
Spring Lock Washers from the People's Republic of China; Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 69 FR 64903. This 
review covers the period October 1, 2002, through September 30, 2003. 
The final results of this administrative review are currently due not 
later than March 9, 2005.

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 
administrative review within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary results are published. However, if it is not practicable to 
complete the review within the time specified, the administering 
authority may extend the final results to not later than 180 days 
following the publication of the preliminary results.
    In order to fully consider the issue of Hangzhou's market-economy 
purchases of steel wire rod from the United Kingdom raised in 
Hangzhou's December 10, 2004, case brief, it is not

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practicable to complete this review within the time limit mandated by 
the Act. Due to the complex nature and broader implications raised by 
this issue, the Department needs extra time to analyze and address this 
issue. Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, 
the Department is fully extending the time period for issuing the final 
results of review from March 9, 2005, until not later than May 8, 2005.

    Dated: March 1, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-973 Filed 3-7-05; 8:45 am]
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