[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 66 (Thursday, April 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17438-17439]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5029]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-428-816]


Certain Cut-to-Length Steel Plate From Germany: Extension of Time 
Limits for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review

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

DATES: Effective Date: April 6, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis McClure or Stephanie Moore 
(202) 482-5973 or (202) 482-3692, respectively, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

Background

    On September 28, 2005, the U.S. Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon 
steel plate from Germany, covering the period August 1, 2004, to July 
31, 2005. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 56631 
(September 28, 2005). The preliminary results of this review are 
currently due no later than May 3, 2006.

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination in 
an administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order or finding for which a review is 
requested. Consistent with

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section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department may extend the 245-day 
period to 365 days if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within a 245-day period.
    We determine that completion of the preliminary results of this 
review within the 245-day period is not practicable. A number of 
complex issues concerning the respondent company's intercorporate 
relationships have arisen in the case. As a result, the Department 
needs additional time to gather supplemental responses from the company 
and its affiliate participating in the review. In order to obtain and 
analyze the necessary additional information, we are extending the time 
period for issuing the preliminary results of review by 120 days to 
August 31, 2006, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.213(h)(2) of the Department's regulations. Therefore, the 
preliminary results are now due no later than August 31, 2006. The 
final results continue to be due 120 days after publication of the 
preliminary results.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: March 30, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-5029 Filed 4-5-06; 8:45 am]
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