[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 70785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-6468]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-502]


Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes & Tubes from Thailand: 
Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 23, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Arrowsmith or Myrna Lobo, 
Office 6, AD/CVD Operations, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
5255 or (202) 482-2371, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 22, 2005, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of the 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded 
carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand, covering the period March 
1, 2004, through February 28, 2005. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 70 FR 20862 (April 22, 
2005).

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (``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 antidumping duty order for which a review is 
requested and issue the final results within 120 days after the date on 
which the preliminary results are published. However, if the Department 
finds it is not practicable to complete the review within the time 
period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend 
these deadlines to a maximum of 365 days and 180 days, respectively.
    Due to the need for further analysis of complex accounting issues 
relating to cost of production, the Department finds that it is not 
practicable to complete the preliminary results in this administrative 
review of circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand by 
December 1, 2005. Therefore, the Department is extending the time limit 
for completion of the preliminary results until no later than March 31, 
2006, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. The deadline 
for the final results of the administrative review continue to be 120 
days after the publication of the preliminary results.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: November 17, 2005.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-6468 Filed 11-23-05; 8:45 am]
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