[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 63 (Monday, April 4, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 17065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1488]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-828]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel 
Flat Products From Brazil

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 4, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Kramer or Kristin Najdi at (202) 
482-0405 or (202) 482-8221, respectively; AD/CVD Operations, Office 7, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 27, 2004, Companhia Sider[uacute]rgica de 
Tubar[atilde]o (CST) requested that the Department conduct a new 
shipper review of its exports to the United States during the period 
March 1, 2004, through August 31, 2004. On October 28, 2004, the 
Department published the notice initiating a new shipper review of CSN. 
See Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 69 FR 
62866 (October 28, 2004). The preliminary results are currently due not 
later than April 20, 2005.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(1) require the Department to issue the 
preliminary results of a new shipper review within 180 days after the 
date on which the new shipper review was initiated and final results of 
a review within 90 days after the date on which the preliminary results 
were issued. The Department may, however, extend the deadline for 
completion of the preliminary results of a new shipper review to 300 
days if it determines that the case is extraordinarily complicated. See 
19 CFR 351.214(i)(2). The Department has determined that additional 
time is necessary to complete the preliminary results because issues 
raised in the cost investigation and the scheduling of sales and cost 
verifications make this case extraordinarily complicated. Therefore, 
the preliminary results of this new shipper review cannot be completed 
within the statutory time limit of 180 days.
    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR 315.214(i)(2) allow 
the Department to extend the deadline for the preliminary results of a 
new shipper review to 300 days after the date on which the new shipper 
review was initiated. For the reasons noted above, we are extending the 
time for the completion of preliminary results until no later than 
August 18, 2005. The deadline for the final results will continue to be 
90 days after the date on which the preliminary results were issued.

    Dated: March 29, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-1488 Filed 4-1-05; 8:45 am]
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