[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 4 (Monday, January 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 1205]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-25646]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-825]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of 
Administrative Review: Oil Country Tubular Goods, Other Than Drill 
Pipe, from Korea

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 7, 2008 .

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Lindsay, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 6, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0780.

Background

    On September 29, 2006, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation for this antidumping duty 
administrative review. See Notice of Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation 
in Part, 71 FR 57465 (September 29, 2006). On September 11, 2007, the 
Department published the preliminary results of this administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on oil country tubular goods 
(OCTG), other than drill pipe, from Korea. See Oil Country Tubular 
Goods, Other Than Drill Pipe, from Korea: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 72 FR 51793 (September 11, 
2007) (Preliminary Results). We received case briefs on October 11, 
2007 and rebuttal briefs on October 16, 2007.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results

    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 antidumping duty order for which a review is 
requested, and issue the final results within 120 days after the date 
on which the preliminary results are published. However, if the 
Department finds 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.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of this review within current statutory limits. Due to the 
complexity of issues raised in the interested parties' case briefs, 
specifically regarding the appropriate valuation of constructed value 
profit, selling expenses, and general and administrative expense 
ratios, the Department requires additional time to evaluate these 
issues properly. Therefore, we are extending the deadline for the final 
results of this review by 60 days, from January 9, 2008 until no later 
than March 10, 2008, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1), 751(a)(3)(A), and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 21, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-25646 Filed 1-4-08; 8:45 am]
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