[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 24, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 35639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-14271]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar from India: Notice of Extension of Time Limit 
for the Final Results of the 2006-2007 Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 24, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Devta Ohri, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
1, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3853.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 21, 1995, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
published in the Federal Register the antidumping duty order on 
stainless steel bar (``SSB'') from India. See Antidumping Duty Orders: 
Stainless Steel Bar form Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 
21, 1995). On March 28, 2007, the Department published a notice in the 
Federal Register initiating an administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on SSB from India for three companies for the period of 
review (``POR'') February 1, 2006, through January 31, 2007.  See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews, 72 FR 14516 (February 28, 2007). On March 7, 2008, the 
Department published its preliminary results of the 2006-2007 
antidumping duty administrative review. See Stainless Steel Bar from 
India: Notice of Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 73 FR 12382 (March 7, 2008); as 
corrected, Stainless Steel Bar from India: Notice of Preliminary 
Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, 73 FR 15049 (March 20, 2008). The final results for this review 
are currently due no later than July 7, 2008.

Extension of Time Limit of Final Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue final results within 120 days 
after the date on which the preliminary results are published. However, 
if it is not practicable to complete the review within this time 
period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend 
the time period to a maximum of 180 days.
    Completion of the final results of the administrative review within 
the 120-day period in this case is not practicable because, following 
the preliminary results, the Department issued a comprehensive 
supplemental questionnaire concerning Sunflag Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.'s 
(``Sunflag'') affiliations. In addition, the Department has received 
multiple deficiency comments from domestic interested parties. The 
Department requires additional time to analyze the Sunflag's 
supplemental questionnaire response and the comments from the domestic 
interested parties.
    Because it is not practicable to complete this review within the 
time specified under the Act, we are fully extending the time period 
for issuing the final results of the administrative review in 
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. Therefore, the final 
results are now due no later than September 3, 2008.
    This notice is published pursuant to sections 751(a) and 777(i) of 
the Act.

    Dated: June 18, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-14271 Filed 6-23-08; 8:45 am]
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