[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 249 (Monday, December 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79442-79443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30863]


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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 29, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla, 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) 482-3477.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) published an 
antidumping

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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, 2008, 
PSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, a Russian Federation producer of the 
subject merchandise, requested that the Department conduct an 
administrative review. On April 30, 2008, 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 June 4, 2008, 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, 2007, through March 31, 2008. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 73 FR 31813 (June 4, 2008). 
The preliminary results of this administrative review are currently due 
no later than December 31, 2008.

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 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, 2008. We 
require additional time to analyze a number of complex cost-accounting 
and corporate affiliation issues relating to this administrative 
review.
    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 90 days to March 31, 2009.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777 (i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 18, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations.
[FR Doc. E8-30863 Filed 12-24-08; 8:45 am]
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