[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3896-3897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1343]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-501]


Certain Welded Carbon Steel Pipe and Tube from Turkey: Extension 
of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joy Zhang, or Christopher Hargett, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 4014, 14th Street and 
Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC

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20230, telephone: (202) 482-1168 or (202) 482-4161, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 24, 2009, the U.S. Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on certain welded carbon steel 
pipe and tube from Turkey covering the period May 1, 2008, through 
April 30, 2009. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 74 FR 30052 
(June 24, 2009). The preliminary results 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. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act 
further states that if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within the time period specified, the administering authority may 
extend the 245-day period to issue its preliminary results to up to 120 
days.
    We determine that completion of the preliminary results of this 
review within the 245-day period is not practicable for the following 
reason. The respondent claimed that during the period of review, there 
were significant changes in the total cost of manufacturing due to 
significant changes in the cost of the primary raw material, hot-rolled 
sheet. This requires the Department to gather and analyze a significant 
amount of information pertaining to the company's sales practices and 
manufacturing costs. Given the complexity of this issue, and in 
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, we are extending the 
time period for issuing the preliminary results of the review by 120 
days. The preliminary results are now due no later than May 31, 2010. 
The final results continue to be due 120 days after publication of the 
preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: January 19, 2010.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-1343 Filed 1-22-10; 8:45 am]
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