[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 247 (Monday, December 28, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 68586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-30650]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-502]


Extension of Time Limit for Certain Welded Carbon Steel Standard 
Pipes and Tubes from India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review.

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

DATES: Effective Date: December 28, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael A. Romani, 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 certain welded carbon steel standard pipes 
and tubes from India on May 12, 1986. See Antidumping Duty Order; 
Certain Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipes and Tubes from India, 51 FR 
17384 (May 12, 1986). In response to an opportunity to request an 
administrative review, Wheatland Tube Company, the petitioner in this 
proceeding, requested that the Department conduct an administrative 
review with respect to ten Indian producers. On June 24, 2009, the 
Department published a notice of initiation of an administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on certain welded carbon steel standard 
pipes and tubes from India for the period May 1, 2008, through April 
30, 2009. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 74 FR 30052 
(June 24, 2009). The preliminary results of this administrative review 
are currently due no later than January 31, 2010.

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 January 31, 2010, 
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. 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 92 days to May 3, 
2010.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 17, 2009.
John M. Andersen
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations
[FR Doc. E9-30650 Filed 12-24-09; 8:45 am]
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