[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 3065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1243]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-580-812]


Dynamic Random Access Memory Semiconductors of One Megabit or 
Above (DRAMs) From the Republic of Korea: Postponement of Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Extension of time limit for preliminary results of antidumping 
duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit for the preliminary results of the administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on DRAMs from the Republic of Korea, 
covering the period May 1, 1997, through April 30, 1998, since it is 
not practicable to complete the review within the time limit mandated 
by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 20, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: John Conniff, Antidumping Duty and 
Countervailing Duty Enforcement, Office Four, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington DC 20230, telephone 202/482-
1009.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Act by the Uruguay Rounds Agreements 
Act.
    In addition, unless stated otherwise, all citations to the 
Department's regulations are to the current regulations codified at 19 
CFR 351 (1998).

Background

    On June 29, 1998 (63 FR 35188), the Department initiated an 
administrative review of the antidumping order on DRAMs from the 
Republic of Korea, covering the period May 1, 1997 through April 30, 
1998.

Postponement of Preliminary Result of Review

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of 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 and a 
final determination within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary determination is published. However, if it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) allows the Department to extend this time period to 365 
days and 180 days, respectively.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time frame because of the 
complexity of the legal and methodological issues involved in this 
review (see January 4, 1999 Memorandum from Holly Kuga, Acting Deputy 
Assistant Secretary to Robert LaRussa, Assistant Secretary). 
Accordingly, the deadline for issuing the preliminary results of this 
review is now due no later than June 1, 1999. The deadline for issuing 
the final results of this review will be no later than 120 days from 
the publication of the preliminary results.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act (19 U.S.C. 1675 (a)(3)(A)).

    Dated: January 13, 1999.
Holly Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Group II.
[FR Doc. 99-1243 Filed 1-19-99; 8:45 am]
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