[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 47 (Friday, March 11, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12185-12186]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1027]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-806]


Silicon Metal From Brazil: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

DATES: Effective Date: March 11, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maisha Cryor or Steven Ryan, at (202)

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482-5831 or (202) 482-0065, respectively; Import Administration, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 4, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

Background

    On August 24, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
silicon metal from Brazil. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation 
in Part, 69 FR 52857 (August 30, 2004). The period of review is July 1, 
2003, through June 30, 2004.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), the Department shall make a preliminary 
determination in an administrative review of an antidumping duty order 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of the date 
of publication of the order. The Act further provides, however, that 
the Department may extend that 245-day period to 365 days if it 
determines it is not practicable to complete the review within the 
foregoing time period. The preliminary results of this antidumping duty 
administrative review of silicon metal from Brazil are currently 
scheduled to be completed on April 2, 2005. However, the Department 
finds that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary results in 
this administrative review of silicon metal from Brazil within this 
time limit because additional time is needed to fully address issues 
relating to affiliation, treatment of value added taxes, reconciliation 
of costs to financial statements and the calculation of the total cost 
of manufacturing, as well as to conduct mandatory verifications of the 
questionnaire responses and supplemental questionnaire responses.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results of this review until August 1, 2005, which is the 
next business day after 365 days from the last day of the anniversary 
month of the date of publication of the order. The deadline for the 
final results of this administrative review continues to be 120 days 
after the publication of the preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: March 7, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-1027 Filed 3-10-05; 8:45 am]
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