[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 108 (Monday, June 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32160-32161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13584]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-351-829]


Certain Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from 
Brazil: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Arrowsmith or Myrna Lobo, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 6, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202) (202) 
482-5255 and (202) 482-2371, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 17, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the countervailing duty order on certain hot-rolled flat-
rolled carbon-quality steel products from Brazil. See Agreement 
Suspending the Countervailing Duty Investigation on Hot-Rolled Flat-
Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel From Brazil; Termination of Suspension 
Agreement and Notice of Countervailing Duty Order. (69 FR 56040, 
September 17, 2004). On October 26, 2009, in response to a timely 
request from Usinas Sider[uacute]rgicas de Minas Gerais (Usiminas), and 
its subsidiary, Companhia Sider[uacute]rgica Paulista (Cosipa), the 
Department initiated an administrative review of the countervailing 
duty order on certain hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel 
products from Brazil. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Reviews, 74 FR 54956 (October 26, 2009). This 
administrative review covers the period January 1, 2008 through 
December 31, 2008.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1), the Department shall issue 
preliminary results in an administrative review of a countervailing 
duty order within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month 
of the order for which the administrative review was requested. 
However, if the Department determines that it is not practicable to 
complete the review within the aforementioned specified time limits, 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2) allow the 
Department to extend the 245-day period to 365 days.
    The preliminary results of this administrative review were 
originally due on June 2, 2010. On February 12, 2010, the Department 
exercised its discretion to toll deadlines because of the closure of 
the Federal Government due to snowstorms. Thus, all deadlines in this 
segment of the proceeding were extended by seven days. See Memorandum 
to the Record from Ronald Lorentzen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Import Administration, regarding ``Tolling of Administrative Deadlines 
As a Result of the Government Closure During the Recent Snowstorm,'' 
dated February 12, 2010. As a result, the deadline for the preliminary 
results was tolled to June 9, 2010.
    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.213(h)(2), we determine that it is not practicable to complete the 
results of this review within the original time limit. This is the 
first administrative review of this countervailing duty order, which 
was issued in 2004. The order was issued five years after the 
completion of the countervailing duty investigation, and after the 
termination of the agreement that suspended the investigation. See 
Suspension of Countervailing Duty Investigation: Certain Hot-Rolled 
Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Brazil, 64 FR 38797 
(July 19, 1999); see also Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 
Determination: Certain Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel 
Products from Brazil, 64 FR 38742 (July 19, 1999). Because this 
administrative review is the first opportunity in more than ten years 
for the Department to examine assistance provided by the Government of 
Brazil to producers of certain hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality 
steel products, the Department needs additional time to analyze the 
questionnaire responses and issue supplemental questionnaires. In 
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department has 
decided to extend the time limit for the preliminary results from 245 
days to 365 days; the preliminary results will now be due no later than 
October 7, 2010. Unless extended, the final results continue to

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be due 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results, 
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: June 1, 2010.
John M. Andersen.
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
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