[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 80 (Wednesday, April 27, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 21737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1991]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-201-802


Gray Portland Cement and Clinker From Mexico: Notice of Extension 
of the Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 27, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Frank or Hermes Pinilla, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 5, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
0090 and (202) 482-3477, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 29, 1990, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published an antidumping duty order on gray portland cement from Mexico 
(see 55 FR 35371). In August 2004, the petitioner, the Southern Tier 
Cement Committee, requested a review of CEMEX S.A. de C.V. (CEMEX), 
CEMEX's affiliate, GCC Cemento, S.A. de C.V. (GCCC). In addition, in 
August 2004, CEMEX and GCCC requested reviews of their own sales during 
the period of review. On September 22, 2004, the Department published 
in the Federal Register the Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation 
in Part (69 FR 56745) in which it initiated an administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on gray portland cement and clinker from 
Mexico. The period of review is August 1, 2003, through July 31, 2004. 
The preliminary results of this administrative review are currently due 
no later than May 3, 2005.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), provides that the Department will issue the preliminary results 
of 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 also provides that the Department may 
extend the 245-day period up to 365 days if it determines that it is 
not practicable to complete the review within the foregoing time 
period.
    This review involves complex issues regarding sales of a new type 
of cement and the comparability of these sales, and the Department 
needs additional time to consider these issues. For these reasons, the 
Department has determined that it is not practicable to complete the 
preliminary results within the time limit mandated by section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. Therefore, in accordance with that section, 
the Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than August 31, 2005, which is 365 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of the date of 
publication of the order. The Department intends to issue the final 
results of review 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: April 20, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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