[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 66 (Thursday, April 7, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17648-17649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1608]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-816]


Corrosion Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From Korea: 
Extension of Time Limits for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lyman Armstrong or Victoria Cho at 
(202) 482-3601 or (202) 482-5075 respectively, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

Background

    On September 22, 2004, the U.S. Department of Commerce 
(``Department'') published a notice of initiation of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on corrosion resistant carbon 
steel flat products from Korea, covering the period August 1, 2003 to 
July 31, 2004 (69 FR 56745). The preliminary results of this review are 
currently due no later than May 3, 2005.

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
or finding for which

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a review is requested. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act further states 
that if it is not practicable to complete the review within the time 
period specified, the administering authority may extend the 245-day 
period to issue its preliminary results by up to 120 days.
    We determine that completion of the preliminary results of this 
review within the 245-day period is not practicable for the following 
reasons. This review covers six companies, and to conduct the sales and 
cost analyses for each requires the Department to gather and analyze a 
significant amount of information pertaining to each company's sales 
practices, manufacturing costs and corporate relationships. In 
addition, the Department is analyzing issues related to scope 
exclusions of certain products. Given the number and complexity of 
issues in this case, and in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act, we are extending the time period for issuing the preliminary 
results of review to 365 days. Therefore, the preliminary results are 
now due no later than August 31, 2005. The final results continued to 
be due 120 days after publication of the preliminary results.

Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-1608 Filed 4-6-05; 8:45 am]
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