[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 28 (Friday, February 10, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 7018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1879]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

International Trade Administration

[C-351-818, C-469-804]


Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Brazil and Spain; Extension 
of Time Limits for Final Results of Expedited Five-year (``Sunset'') 
Reviews of Countervailing Duty Orders

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 10, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Martha Douthit or Dana Mermelstein, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 6, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202-482-5050 or 202-482-
1391, respectively.

Background

    On November 1, 2005, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published in the Federal Register the notice of 
initiation of the sunset reviews of the countervailing duty orders on 
cut-to-length carbon steel plate (``CTL steel plate'') from Brazil and 
Spain. See Initiation of Five-year (``Sunset'') Reviews, 70 FR 65884 
(November 1, 2005). Based on adequate responses from the domestic 
interested parties and inadequate responses from respondent interested 
parties, the Department is conducting expedited sunset reviews of these 
countervailing duty orders.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Reviews

    In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 
as amended (``the Act''), the U.S. Department of Commerce, (``the 
Department'') may extend the period of time for issuing the final 
results of an expedited sunset review if it determines that the review 
is extraordinarily complicated. As set forth in subsection 
751(c)(5)(C)(v) of the Act, the Department may treat a sunset review as 
extraordinarily complicated if it is a review of a transition order, as 
is the case in these proceedings. A transition order is defined as 
including countervailing duty orders which were in effect on January 1, 
1995, the date on which the WTO Agreement's provisions on sunset 
reviews went into effect. Transition orders are treated as issued on 
January 1, 1995. See section 751(c)(6)(D) of the Act. The 
countervailing duty orders on CTL steel plate from Brazil and Spain 
were issued prior to January 1, 1995; as such they are deemed 
transition orders for purposes of the sunset proceeding.
    In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(C)(v) of the Act, the 
Department has determined that the sunset reviews of the countervailing 
duty orders on CTL steel plate from Brazil and Spain require additional 
time for the Department to complete its analysis. The Department's 
final results of these sunset reviews were scheduled for completion on 
March 1, 2006. The Department will extend the deadlines in these 
proceedings by 90 days and, as a result, issue the final results of 
these expedited sunset reviews no later than May 30, 2006.
    This notice is issued in accordance with sections 751(c)(5)(B) and 
751(c)(5)(C)(v) of the Act.

     Dated: February 6, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-1879 Filed 2-9-06; 8:45 am]
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