[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 6, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 430]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-31459]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION

[A-570-849]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from the People's 
Republic of China: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results 
of New Shipper Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 6, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trisha Tran, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
8, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4852.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 13, 2008, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
published the preliminary results of the new shipper review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel from the 
People's Republic of China, covering the period November 1, 2006, 
through October 31, 2007, for the following exporter Hunan Valin 
Xiangtan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (``Valin Xiangtan''). See Certain Cut-
to-Length Carbon Steel from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary 
Results of New Shipper Review, 73 FR 67124 (November 13, 2008) 
(``Preliminary Results''). The final results are currently due on 
February 4, 2009.

Extension of Time Limits for Final Results

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act''), and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(1) require the Department to issue 
the final results of a new shipper review within 90 days after the date 
on which the preliminary results were issued. The Department may, 
however, extend the 90-day period for completion of the final results 
of a new shipper review to 150 days if it determines that the case is 
extraordinarily complicated. See section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2).
    The Department has extended the deadline for parties to submit 
publicly available information to value factors of production, and the 
deadline for parties to submit case briefs and rebuttal briefs in order 
to address several issues raised by interested parties. As a result of 
these extensions and the complex issues raised in this new shipper 
review, including by-product offsets, the Department determines that 
this new shipper review is extraordinarily complicated and it cannot 
complete this new shipper review within the current time limit. 
Accordingly, the Department is extending the time limit for the 
completion of the final results by 30 days from February 4, 2009, until 
Friday, March 6, 2009, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2).
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(2)(B) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 29, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations.
[FR Doc. E8-31459 Filed 1-5-09; 8:45 am]
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