[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 66619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-29973]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-821-819


Magnesium Metal from the Russian Federation: Extension of Time 
Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 16, 2009.

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 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 1, 2009, we published the notice of opportunity to request 
administrative review. See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 
Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request 
Administrative Review, 74 FR 14771 (April 1, 2009). In response to the 
opportunity to request an administrative review, PSC VSMPO-AVISMA 
Corporation, a Russian Federation producer of the subject merchandise, 
requested that the Department conduct an administrative review on April 
30, 2009. On April 30, 2009, 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). On May 29, 2009, 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, 2008, through March 31, 2009. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews, 74 FR 25711 (May 29, 2009). The preliminary results of this 
administrative review are currently due no later than December 31, 
2009.

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, 2009, 
because we require additional time to analyze a number of complex cost-
accounting and corporate-affiliation issues relating to this 
administrative review that have been raised by parties to the 
proceeding. In addition, we plan to verify the questionnaire responses 
submitted for this review which will require additional time.
    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 120 days to April 30, 2010.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777 (i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 9, 2009.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. E9-29973 Filed 12-15-09; 8:45 am]
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