[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 199 (Monday, October 16, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 60689]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-17040]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-580-837]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Quality Steel Plate from Korea; 
Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 16, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jolanta Lawska, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-8362.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background Information

    On April 5, 2006, the U.S. Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation of the administrative 
review on the countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon 
quality steel plate from the Republic of Korea, covering the period 
January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2005. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request 
for Revocation in Part, 71 FR 17077 (April 5, 2006). The preliminary 
results of this review are currently due no later than October 31, 
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 issue preliminary results within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order or finding 
for which a review is requested. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act 
further states that if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within the time period specified, the administering authority may 
extend the 245-day period to issue its preliminary results by up to 120 
days.
    We have determined that it is not practicable to complete the 
preliminary results of this review within the 245-day period. Given the 
number and complexity of issues in this case, and in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, we are extending the time period for 
issuing the preliminary results of review by 120 days. Therefore, the 
preliminary results are now due no later than February 28, 2007. The 
final results continue to be due 120 days after publication of the 
preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: October 6, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-17040 Filed 10-13-06; 8:45 am]
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