[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 226 (Friday, November 24, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67854-67855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19896]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-421-807]


Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from the 
Netherlands; Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary and Final Results 
of Full Five-Year (``Sunset'') Review of Antidumping Duty Order

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 24, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Bezirganian or Robert James, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 7, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1131 or (202) 
482-0649, respectively.

Background

    On August 1, 2006, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of its 
sunset review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled 
carbon steel flat products from the Netherlands. See Initiation of 
Five-Year (``Sunset'') Reviews, 71 FR 43443 (August 1, 2006).
    The Department received a Notice of Intent to Participate from 
Corus Staal BV on August 8, 2006. Corus Staal BV claimed interested 
party status as a foreign producer, under Section 771(9)(A) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), 19 U.S.C. 1677(9)(A), and 
19 CFR 351.102(b). The following domestic interested parties each 
submitted a Notice of Intent to Participate, all within the deadline 
specified in section 351.218(d)(1)(i) of the Department's regulations, 
identifying themselves as interested parties under 771(9)(c) of the 
Act: Nucor Corporation (August 10, 2006); Gallatin Steel, IPSCO Steel, 
Inc., and Steel Dynamics, Inc. (August 15, 2006); Mittal Steel USA 
(August 16, 2006); United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, 
Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers 
International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC (August 16, 2006); and United States 
Steel Corporation (August 16, 2006).
    The Department received a complete and timely joint substantive 
response from certain domestic interested parties (United States Steel 
Corporation, Mittal Steel USA Inc., Nucor Corporation, Gallatin Steel 
Company, Steel Dynamics Inc., and IPSCO Steel Inc.) (``Domestic 
Producers'') on August 31, 2006, within the deadline specified under 
section 351.218(d)(3)(i) of the Department's regulations. The 
Department also received a complete substantive response from Corus 
Staal BV on August 31, 2006. On September 8, 2006, the Department 
received rebuttal comments from United States Steel Corporation and 
from Corus Staal BV.
    On September 20, 2006, the Department determined that Domestic 
Producers' and Corus Staal BV's August 31, 2006, submissions 
constituted adequate responses to the notice of initiation, in 
accordance with sections 351.218(e)(1)(i) and (ii) of the Department's 
regulations. See Sunset Review of Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat 
Products from the Netherlands: Adequacy of Domestic and Respondent 
Interested Party Responses to the Notice of Initiation. As a result, 
the Department determined, in accordance with section 351.218(e)(2) of 
its regulations, to conduct a full (240- day) review.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary and Final Results of Review

    The Act provides for the completion of a full sunset review within 
240 days of the publication of the initiation notice. See section 
751(c)(5)(A) of the Act. In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the 
Act, the Department may extend the period of time for making its 
determination by not more

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than 90 days, if it determines that the review is extraordinarily 
complicated. We determine that this review is extraordinarily 
complicated, pursuant to sections 751(c)(5)(C) (i) and (ii) of the Act, 
because there are a large number of issues, some of which are complex. 
The parties filed comments raising various issues which require 
additional time for analysis, including the relevance of recent World 
Trade Organization decisions and the Department's duty absorption 
analysis in the concurrent administrative review.
    The Department's preliminary results of the sunset review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products 
from the Netherlands are currently scheduled for November 19, 2006 and 
the final results are currently scheduled for March 29, 2007. However, 
the Department will extend the deadlines in this proceeding for the 
above-stated reasons. As a result, the Department intends to issue the 
preliminary results of the full sunset review by February 12, 2007, and 
the final results of that review by June 22, 2007. These dates are 85 
days from the original scheduled dates of the preliminary and final 
results of the sunset review.
    This notice is issued in accordance with sections 751(c)(5)(B) and 
(C) of the Act.

    Dated: November 16, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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