[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 14502]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-4148]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-583-831)


Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from Taiwan: Extension 
of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

DATE: March 22, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Blackledge or Karine Gziryan, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
3518 or (202) 482-4081, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On August 29, 2005, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of an administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from 
Taiwan, covering the period July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2005. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 51009. The 
preliminary results of review are currently due no later than April 3, 
2006.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    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 a review is requested and a final determination 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary determination 
is published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within these time periods, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the 245-day time limit for the preliminary 
determination to a maximum of 365 days and the time limit for the final 
determination to 180 days (or 300 days if the Department does not 
extend the time limit for the preliminary determination) from the date 
of publication of the preliminary determination.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit because the 
review involves examining certain complex cost issues. Therefore, the 
Department is fully extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than July 31, 2006, which is 365 
days from the last day of the anniversary month of the date of 
publication of the order. The deadline for the final results of this 
administrative review continues to be 120 days after the publication of 
the preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: March 16, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-4148 Filed 3-21-06; 8:45 am]
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