[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 150 (Thursday, August 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47150-47151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19822]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-975, A-201-840]


Galvanized Steel Wire From the People's Republic of China and 
Mexico: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations of Antidumping Duty 
Investigations

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

DATES: Effective Date: August 4, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irene Gorelik (the People's Republic 
of China), Office 9, or Patrick Edwards (Mexico), Office 7, AD/CVD 
Operations, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-6905 or (202) 482-8029, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On April 27, 2011, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register the initiation of the antidumping 
duty investigations of galvanized steel wire from the People's Republic 
of China (PRC) and Mexico. The period of investigation (POI) for the 
PRC investigation is July 1, 2010, through December 31, 2010, and the 
POI for the Mexico investigation is January 1, 2010, through December 
31, 2010. See Galvanized Steel Wire From the People's Republic of China 
and Mexico: Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigations, 76 FR 23548 
(April 27, 2011). The current deadline for the preliminary 
determinations of these investigations is September 7, 2011.

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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to complete its preliminary 
determinations for these investigations no later than 140 days after 
the date of issuance of the initiation (i.e., September 7, 2011).
    On July 13, 2011, the petitioners, Davis Wire Corporation, 
Johnstown Wire Technologies, Inc., Mid-South Wire Company, Inc., 
National Standard, LLC, and Oklahoma Steel & Wire Company, Inc. 
(collectively, the petitioners) made a timely request pursuant to 19 
CFR 351.205(e) for a postponement of the preliminary determinations 
with respect to the PRC and Mexico. The petitioners requested 
postponement of the preliminary determinations of the antidumping duty 
investigations with respect to both the PRC and Mexico so that they 
have adequate time to analyze and comment upon the responses of the 
various companies which have been selected as respondents. See Letters 
from the Petitioners to the Department, titled ``Request for Extension 
of Time for Preliminary Determination,'' dated July 13, 2011.
    For the reasons stated by the petitioners and because there are no 
compelling reasons to deny the request, the Department is postponing 
the deadline for the preliminary determinations with respect to the PRC 
and Mexico pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.205(e) by 50 days to October 27, 2011. In accordance with section 
735(a)(1) of the Act, the deadline for the final determinations of 
these antidumping duty investigations will continue to be 75 days after 
the date of these preliminary determinations, unless extended.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
733(c)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).

    Dated: July 29, 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-19822 Filed 8-3-11; 8:45 am]
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