[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 88 (Monday, May 9, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 24393]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-2230]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-588-824)


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From 
Japan: Notice of Extension of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review.

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 9, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Hargett or James Terpstra, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
4161 or (202) 482-3965.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published an 
antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat 
products from Japan on August 19, 1993. See Antidumping Duty Order: 
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from Japan, 58 
FR 44163 (August 19, 1993). Nucor Corporation (``Nucor''), the 
petitioner, requested that the Department conduct an administrative 
review of the order. See Letter from Nucor Corporation, August 31, 
2004. On September 22, 2004, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan, 
covering the period of August 1, 2003, to July 31, 2004. See Initiation 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Request for Revocation, In Part, 69 FR 56745. The preliminary results 
for this review are currently due no later than May 3, 2005.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of an 
administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested. If it is 
not practicable to complete the review within the time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) of the Department's 
regulations allow the Department to extend this deadline to a maximum 
of 365 days.
    Both respondents, JFE and Nippon Steel, have declined to 
participate in this review. As such, the Department will apply adverse 
facts available pursuant to section 776(a) and (b) of the Act. The 
Department has continuing concerns about what the appropriate rate is 
to assign to JFE and Nippon Steel as adverse facts available. 
Therefore, the Department determines that it is not practicable to 
complete the review within the original time period, and is extending 
the time limit for completion of the preliminary results by 30 days to 
no later than June 2, 2005. We intend to issue the final results no 
later than 120 days after publication of the notice of the preliminary 
results. This notice is being issued and published in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: May 3, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-2230 Filed 5-6-05; 8:45 am]
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