[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 194 (Friday, October 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 59073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-16608]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-817]


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

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Commerce.

DATES: Effective Date: October 6, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Bailey, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 7, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0193.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) received timely 
requests for administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products (hot-rolled steel) from 
Thailand, with respect to Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company 
Limited (SSI) on November 30, 2005, from domestic producer Nucor 
Corporation (Nucor). Also on November 30, 2005, the Department received 
a request for administrative review of the same order for SSI, 
Nakornthai Strip Mill Public Co., Ltd. (NSM), and G Steel Public 
Company Limited (G Steel) from petitioner United States Steel 
Corporation (petitioner). On December 22, 2005, the Department 
published a notice of initiation of this administrative review for the 
period of November 1, 2004, through October 31, 2005. See Notice of 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 76024 (December 22, 
2005).
    On January 13, 2006, G Steel submitted a no-shipments letter to the 
Department in which it claimed it did not have sales, shipments, or 
entries of subject merchandise to the United States during the current 
period of review (i.e., November 1, 2004 through October 31, 2005).
    On March 22, 2006, both Nucor and petitioner submitted letters 
withdrawing their requests for administrative review of the above-
referenced antidumping duty order with respect to SSI. Accordingly, on 
April 28, 2006, the Department rescinded this review with respect to 
SSI. See Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: 
Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand, 71 FR 
25148 (April 28, 2006).
    On August 2, 2006, the Department extended the preliminary results 
of administrative review by 60 days to October 2, 2006. See Notice of 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products 
From Thailand, 71 FR 44019 (August 3, 2006).

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), the Department shall issue preliminary results in 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. The Act further provides, however, that the Department 
may extend that 245-day period to 365 days if it determines it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the foregoing time period.
    On September 14, 2006, petitioner submitted a request for the 
Department to rescind the current administrative review with respect to 
NSM, and on September 15, 2006, NSM submitted comments rebutting 
petitioner's request. Due to the Department's ongoing analysis of the 
comments received from both parties, and in light of the complexity of 
analyzing NSM's sales and cost data and the control number reporting 
methodology for various products, it is not practicable to complete 
this review by the current 60-day extended deadline of October 2, 2006. 
Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the 
Department is extending the time limit for the preliminary results by 
30 days until October 31, 2006.\1\ The final results continue to be due 
120 days after the publication of the preliminary results, in 
accordance with section 351.213(h) of the Department's regulations.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: October 2, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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    \1\ The Department notes that because extensions to the 
preliminary results are based on the last day of the anniversary 
month of the order, the new due date is Tuesday, October 31, 2006 
(90 days from the original preliminary due date of August 2, 2006).
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