[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 85 (Thursday, May 3, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 24561]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-8478]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-485-803]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Romania: Notice of 
Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 3, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Drury or Dena Crossland, 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-
0195 or (202) 482-3362, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 29, 2006, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation of administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel 
plate from Romania, covering the period August 1, 2005, through July 
31, 2006. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 71 FR 57465 (September 29, 2006). The 
preliminary results for this review are currently due no later than May 
3, 2007.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of an 
administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested and the 
final results of review within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary results are published. If it is not practicable to complete 
the review within the time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act 
allows the Department to extend these deadlines to a maximum of 365 
days and 180 days, respectively.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    The deadline for the preliminary results of this administrative 
review is currently May 3, 2007. The Department determines that 
completion of the preliminary results within the statutory time period 
is not practicable. The Department issued a supplemental sales 
questionnaire to respondent Mittal Steel Galati S.A. (``MS Galati'') 
for clarification pertaining to the date of sale issue for respondent's 
U.S. sales on April 2, 2007, and the respondent submitted its 
supplemental questionnaire response on April 16, 2007. The Department 
requires additional time to review and analyze MS Galati's 
questionnaire response, and to issue additional supplemental sales 
questionnaires, if necessary.
    Therefore, given the additional time needed to conduct a complete 
analysis for this administrative review, in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results by an additional 60 days to no 
later than July 2, 2007. The final results continue to be due no later 
than 120 days after publication of the notice of the preliminary 
results.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: April 27, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-8478 Filed 5-2-07; 8:45 am]
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