[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 52 (Friday, March 16, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 15718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6462]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-852, A-523-801, A-520-805, A-552-811]


Circular Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe From India, the 
Sultanate of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and the Socialist Republic 
of Vietnam: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations of Antidumping 
Duty Investigations

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

DATES: Effective Date: March 16, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Bezirganian or Robert James, 
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) 482-1131 
or (202) 482-0649, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 22, 2011, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register the initiation of the antidumping 
duty investigations of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe and 
tube from India, the Sultanate of Oman (Oman), the United Arab Emirates 
(UAE), and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam). See Circular 
Welded Carbon-Quality Steel Pipe From India, the Sultanate of Oman, the 
United Arab Emirates, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation 
of Antidumping Duty Investigations, 76 FR 72164 (November 22, 2011). 
The current deadline for the preliminary determinations of these 
investigations is April 3, 2012.

Periods of Investigations

    The period of investigation for the India, Oman, and UAE 
investigations is October 1, 2010, through September 30, 2011. The 
period of investigation for the Vietnam investigation is April 1, 2011, 
through September 30, 2011.

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination no 
later than 140 days after the initiation of the investigation.
    On February 29, 2012, petitioners JMC Steel Group and Allied Tube 
and Conduit, made a timely request pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(e) for a 
postponement of the preliminary determinations to provide the 
Department with additional time to collect and analyze information 
required for those determinations. No interested party commented on 
this request for postponement.
    For the reason stated above and because there are no compelling 
reasons to deny the request, the Department is postponing by 50 days to 
May 23, 2012, the deadline for its preliminary determinations of these 
investigations pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.205(e) and (f). In accordance with section 735(a)(1) of the Act, 
the deadline for the final determination of these antidumping duty 
investigations will continue to be 75 days after the date of the 
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: March 12, 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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