[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 72 (Monday, April 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 20021]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-7891]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-274-804)


Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Trinidad and Tobago: 
Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 14, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis McClure or Stephanie Moore, 
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave., NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5973 and (202) 482-3692, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 26, 2007, the U.S. Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on carbon and certain alloy steel 
wire rod from Trinidad and Tobago, covering the period October 1, 2006, 
to September 30, 2007. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 72 FR 
65938 (November 26, 2007). The preliminary results of this review are 
currently due no later than July 2, 2008.

Extension of Time Limit of 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 in 
an administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order or finding for which a review is 
requested. Consistent with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the 
Department may extend the 245-day period to 365 days if it is not 
practicable to complete the review within a 245-day period.
    We determine that completion of the preliminary results of this 
review within the 245-day period is not practicable. Specifically, 
Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc., Nucor Steel Connecticut Inc., Keystone 
Consolidated Industries, Inc., and Rocky Mountain Steel Mills 
(collectively, petitioners) have raised a number of issues which 
require the collection of additional data and analysis. In addition, we 
need additional time to thoroughly consider the responses to the 
supplemental questionnaires the Department has sent to the respondent.
    Therefore, we are extending the time period for issuing the 
preliminary results of review by 120 days to October 30, 2008, in 
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR Sec.  
351.213(h)(2) of the Department's regulations. Therefore, the 
preliminary results are now due no later than October 30, 2008. The 
final results continue to be due 120 days after publication of the 
preliminary results.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: April 8, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-7891 Filed 4-11-08; 8:45 am]
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