[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 6, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62625-62626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-21802]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-580-836, C-580-837


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From 
the Republic of Korea: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 6, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yang Jin Chun or Minoo Hatten at (202) 
482-5760 and (202) 482-1690, respectively (antidumping), and Jolanta 
Lawska or Eric Greynolds at (202) 482-8362 and (202) 482-6071, 
respectively (countervailing duty), Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    At the request of interested parties, the Department of Commerce 
(the Department) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products 
from the Republic of Korea for the period February 1, 2006, through 
January 31, 2007. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 72 FR 14516 (March 28, 2007) (March Initiation 
Notice), for Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. (DSM), and Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 72 FR 20986 
(April 27, 2007), for DSEC Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Daewoo 
Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSEC), and Tae Chang Steel Co., Ltd. 
(TC Steel). The Department initiated an administrative review of the 
countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality

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steel plate products from the Republic of Korea for the period January 
1, 2006, through December 31, 2006. See March Initiation Notice for 
DSM, DSEC, and TC Steel. We rescinded the review of TC Steel. See 
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate from the Republic of 
Korea: Notice of Partial Rescission of Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review, 72 FR 36962 (July 6, 2007). The preliminary 
results of both reviews are currently due no later than October 31, 
2007.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
for which a review is requested and a final determination within 120 
days after the date on which the preliminary determination is 
published. If it is not practicable to complete the review within these 
time periods, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to 
extend the time limit for the preliminary determination to a maximum of 
365 days after the last day of the anniversary month. See also 19 CFR 
351.213(h).
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of these reviews by the current deadline of October 31, 2007. 
Specifically, for the antidumping review, there are a number of complex 
factual issues such as one respondent's corporate affiliations, whether 
certain of its sales are outside the ordinary course of trade, and 
selection of an adverse facts-available rate for an uncooperative 
respondent which affect the calculations for the preliminary results. 
For the countervailing duty review, we need to resolve a question 
concerning shipments by one of the respondents. Therefore, we are 
extending the time period for issuing the preliminary results of these 
reviews by 15 days until November 15, 2007.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).

    Dated: October 31, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-21802 Filed 11-5-07; 8:45 am]
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