[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 144 (Thursday, July 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 42630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11972]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-485-806]


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

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results of the administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat 
products from Romania until October 16, 2006. The period of review is 
November 1, 2004, through October 31, 2005.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 27, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dunyako Ahmadu, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-0198.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 22, 2005, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of the 2004-2005 antidumping duty 
administrative review of this order covering Mittal Steel Galati S.A. 
(formerly Ispat Sidex S.A). See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation 
in Part, 70 FR 76024 (December 22, 2004).

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    The Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), provides at section 
751(a)(3)(A) that the Department will issue the preliminary results of 
an administrative review of an antidumping duty order within 245 days 
after the last day of the anniversary month of the date of publication 
of the order. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act provides further that, if 
the Department determines that it is not practicable to complete the 
review within this time period, the Department may extend the 245-day 
period to 365 days.
    The Department has determined that it is not practicable to 
complete the preliminary results by the current deadline of August 2, 
2006, because it received a request to conduct a sales-below-cost 
investigation on July 11, 2006. Additional time is necessary to 
consider whether to initiate a sales-below-cost investigation, give MS 
Galati an opportunity to provide relevant information, review MS 
Galati's response, and, if appropriate, conduct the cost analysis as 
part of the calculation of the weighted-average margin for MS Galati.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), the Department is extending the time limit for 
the preliminary results by 75 days to October 16, 2006.
    We are issuing this notice in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) 
of the Act.

    Dated: July 21, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-11972 Filed 7-26-06; 8:45 am]
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