[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 91 (Thursday, May 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27460-27461]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-7227]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-533-820)


Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from India: Notice 
of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 11, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kavita Mohan or Jeff Pedersen, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution

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Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3542 or (202) 
482-2769, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 31, 2005, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products 
(HRS) from India covering shipments of HRS by Essar Steel Limited 
(Essar) to the United States for the period December 1, 2003, through 
November 30, 2004. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 
4818 (January 31, 2005). On January 12, 2006, the Department published 
in the Federal Register the preliminary results of review. See Certain 
Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From India: Preliminary Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 2018 (January 12, 
2006). The final results of review are currently due no later than May 
12, 2006.

Statutory Time Limits

    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 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 these deadlines 
to a maximum of 365 days and 180 days (or 300 days if the Department 
does not extend the time limit for the preliminary determination), 
respectively.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Review

    We have determined that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of this review within the original time limit because the 
Department needs additional time to consider a complex issue relating 
to the U.S. price adjustment for countervailing duties imposed to 
offset export subsidies. Therefore, the Department is extending the 
time limit for completion of the final results by 60 days. We intend to 
issue the final results of review no later than July 11, 2006.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: May 5, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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