[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 141 (Tuesday, July 24, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 40274]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-14288]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-549-817)


Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand: 
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: July 24, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dena Crossland or 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-
3362 or (202) 482-0193, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 27, 2006, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation of administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat 
products from Thailand, covering the period November 1, 2005, through 
October 31, 2006. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 71 FR 77720 (December 27, 2006). The 
preliminary results for this review are currently due no later than 
August 2, 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 August 2, 2007. The Department determines that 
completion of the preliminary results within the statutory time period 
is not practicable. On May 30, 2007, the Department issued a section D 
questionnaire to respondent G Steel Public Company Limited (``G 
Steel''). On June 20, 2007, the Department issued G Steel a 
supplemental sales questionnaire requesting additional information 
regarding the business operations of certain affiliated companies. G 
Steel submitted its section D and supplemental sales questionnaire 
responses on June 27, 2007, and July 11, 2007, respectively. The 
Department requires additional time to review and analyze G Steel's 
questionnaire responses, to issue additional supplemental sales and 
cost questionnaires to G Steel and/or G Steel's affiliates, and to 
conduct verification of the questionnaire responses, 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 period 
for completion of the preliminary results to 365 days. Therefore, the 
preliminary results are now due no later than November 30, 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: July 16, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-14288 Filed 7-23-07; 8:45 am]
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