[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 68 (Friday, April 9, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 18153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-8163]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-850]


Certain Large Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, 
and Pressure Pipe From Japan: 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: Mary Kolberg or Nancy Decker, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-1785 
or (202) 482-0196, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 29, 2009, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
published in the Federal Register the initiation of administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on certain large diameter carbon 
and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from Japan, 
covering the period June 1, 2008, through May 31, 2009. See Initiation 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Deferral of Administrative Review, 74 FR 37690 (July 29, 2009). The 
preliminary results for this administrative review were due no later 
than March 9, 2010.\1\ On March 4, 2010, the Department extended the 
time limit for completion of the preliminary results by 30 days to 
April 8, 2010, because it needed additional time to analyze additional 
information regarding a respondent's entries that had been placed on 
the record. See Certain Large Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless 
Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe from Japan: Extension of Time Limit 
for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 75 
FR 11119 (March 10, 2010).
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    \1\ As explained in the memorandum from the Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, the Department has exercised 
its discretion to toll deadlines for the duration of the closure of 
the Federal Government from February 5, through February 12, 2010. 
As a result, all deadlines in this segment of the proceeding have 
been extended by seven days, and the revised deadline for the 
preliminary determination became March 9, 2010. See Memorandum to 
the Record from Ronald Lorentzen, DAS for Import Administration, 
regarding ``Tolling of Administrative Deadlines As a Result of the 
Government Closure During the Recent Snowstorm,'' dated February 12, 
2010.
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Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of an 
administrative review 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 results are published. If it is not practicable to complete 
the review within the time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act 
allows the Department to extend these deadlines to a maximum of 365 
days and 180 days, respectively.
    The review covers four manufacturers/exporters: JFE Steel 
Corporation; Nippon Steel Corporation; NKK Tubes; and Sumitomo Metal 
Industries, Ltd. These four manufacturers/exporters submitted letters 
to the Department certifying that they made no shipments or entries for 
consumption in the United States of the subject merchandise during the 
period of review (``POR''). In response to the Department's query to 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP''), CBP data showed POR 
entries for consumption of subject merchandise that were manufactured 
by one of the respondent companies. The information regarding these 
entries has been placed on the record of this review under the terms of 
the administrative protective order. The Department solicited 
additional information and comments regarding these entries.
    On March 31, 2010, CBP notified the Department that there were 
additional POR entries for consumption of the subject merchandise 
manufactured by one of the four respondent companies. The Department is 
awaiting documentation for these entries.
    Because the Department requires additional time to analyze this new 
information, it is not practicable to complete this review within the 
initial time extension of April 8, 2010. Therefore, the Department is 
further extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary 
results by an additional 90 days to July 7, 2010, in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) of the 
Department's regulations.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: April 5, 2010.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-8163 Filed 4-8-10; 8:45 am]
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