[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 46 (Friday, March 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12376-12377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4547]


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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 Final Results of the 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 7, 2008.

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 7, 2007, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published the preliminary results of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel 
flat products (``hot-rolled steel'') from Thailand, covering the period 
November 1, 2005, through October 31, 2006. See Certain Hot-Rolled 
Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Partial Rescission, 72 FR 
69187 (December 7, 2007) (``Preliminary Results''). The final results 
of this review are currently due no later than April 5, 2008.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Review

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), the Department shall make a final determination 
in an administrative review of an antidumping duty order within 120 
days after the date on which the preliminary results are published. 
However, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to 
extend the 120-day period to 180 days after the preliminary results, if 
it determines it is not practicable to complete the review within the 
foregoing time period.
    The Department finds that it is not practicable to complete the 
final results of the administrative review of hot-rolled steel from 
Thailand within the 120-day period due to the complexity of two issues 
which were briefed by petitioner, respondent, and domestic interested 
party. First, the Department applied facts otherwise available to G 
Steel Public Company Limited (``G Steel'') in the Preliminary Results 
because we were unable to verify G Steel's yield strength data in both 
the home market and U.S. market. Second, in the Preliminary Results, we 
determined that G Steel and Nakornthai Strip Mill Public Company 
Limited (``NSM''), another respondent in this administrative review, 
became affiliated at the end of the POR, but that the requirements had 
not been met to collapse the two companies. We need additional time to 
analyze parties' comments regarding both of these issues.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the 
Department is extending the time period for completion of the final 
results of this review by 60 days to 180 days after the date on which 
the preliminary results were published. Accordingly, the final results 
are now due no later than June 4, 2008.

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    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: March 3, 2008.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-4547 Filed 3-6-08; 8:45 am]
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