[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 239 (Wednesday, December 13, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 74897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-21209]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-821-819


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Magnesium Metal From the 
Russian Federation

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 13, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Calvert or Jun Jack Zhao,AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 6, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3586 or (202) 482-1396, respectively.

Background

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) published an 
antidumping duty order on magnesium metal from the Russian Federation 
on April 15, 2005. See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Magnesium 
Metal from the Russian Federation, 70 FR 19930 (April 15, 2005). On 
April 4, 2006 and April 6, 2006, PSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation (formerly 
known as JSC AVISMA Titianium-Magnesium Works) and its affiliated U.S. 
reseller VSMPO-Tirus, U.S. Inc., and Solikamsk Magnesium Works, Russian 
Federation producers of the subject merchandise, respectively requested 
that the Department conduct an administrative review. On April 28, 
2006, U.S. Magnesium Corporation LLC, petitioner in the investigation, 
also requested that the Department conduct an administrative review. On 
May 31, 2006, the Department published a notice of initiation of an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on the subject 
merchandise, for the period October 4, 2004, through March 31, 2006. 
See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 71 FR 30864 (May 31, 2006). 
The preliminary results of this administrative review are currently due 
no later than December 31, 2006.

Extension of Time Limit 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 the 
publication of the order. The Act further provides, however, that the 
Department may extend the deadline for the completion of the 
preliminary results of a review from 245 days to 365 days if it 
determines that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results within the 245-day period. See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 
Due to the complexity of issues present in this administrative review, 
such as complicated cost accounting issues regarding the revaluation of 
capital assets and the calculation of the proper byproduct offset 
values which will be used to determine production costs of the subject 
merchandise, the Department has determined that it is not practicable 
to complete the review within the original time period.
    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) of the 
Department's regulations allow the Department to extend the deadline 
for the preliminary results to a maximum 365 days from the last day of 
the anniversary month of the order. For the reason noted above, we are 
extending the time for the completion of preliminary results until no 
later than April 30, 2007. The deadline for the final results of this 
administrative review continues to be 120 days after the publication of 
the preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: December 6, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration
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