[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 18, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71620-71621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24498]


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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 18, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dmitry Vladimirov, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 5, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0665.

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 30, 2007, PSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, a Russian Federation 
producer of the subject merchandise, requested that the Department 
conduct an administrative review. On April 30, 2007, U.S. Magnesium 
Corporation LLC, the petitioner in this proceeding, also requested that 
the Department conduct an administrative review with respect to PSC 
VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation and Solikamsk Magnesium Works (SMW), another 
Russian Federation producer of the subject merchandise. On May 30, 
2007, the Department published a notice of initiation of an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on magnesium metal 
from the Russian Federation for the period April 1, 2006, through March 
31, 2007. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 72 FR 29968 
(May 30, 2007). On July 11, 2007, SMW notified the Department that it 
will not participate in this administrative review. The preliminary 
results of this administrative review are currently due no later than 
December 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

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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 in the Federal 
Register. 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.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review by the current deadline of December 31, 2007. We 
require additional time to analyze a number of complex cost-accounting 
issues present in this administrative review, such as the calculation 
of the appropriate by-product offset value to use in the determination 
of production costs.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), we are extending the time period for issuing the 
preliminary results of this review by 120 days to April 29, 2008.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777 (i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 12, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-24498 Filed 12-17-07; 8:45 am]
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