[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 87 (Thursday, May 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24370-24371]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11284]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-201-810]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Mexico: 
Postponement of Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limits for preliminary results of 
countervailing duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Department) is extending by no 
longer than 120 days the time limit of the preliminary results of the 
administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain cut-
to-length carbon steel plate from Mexico, covering the period January 
1, 1997, through December 31, 1997, since it is not practicable to 
complete this review within the time limits mandated by the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675 (a)(3)(A)).

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 6, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dana Mermelstein or Eric Greynolds, 
Office of CVD/AD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
0984 and 482-6071, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by 
the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) effective January 1, 1995 (the 
Act). In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the 
Department's regulations are to the regulations as codified at 19 CFR 
Part 351 (April 1998).

Background

    On September 29, 1998, the Department initiated an administrative 
review of the countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon 
steel plate from Mexico, covering the period January 1, 1997, through 
December 31, 1997 (63 FR 51893). In our notice of initiation, we stated 
our intention to issue the final results of this review no later than 
August 31, 1999. The preliminary results of review are

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currently due no later than May 3, 1999. Due to the complexity of the 
issues and the fact that certain subsidy allegations are being examined 
for the first time, the Department has determined that it is not 
practicable to complete this review within the time limits mandated by 
the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675 (a)(3)(A)).

Postponement of Preliminary Results 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/finding 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 a 
maximum of 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. See Memorandum 
from Bernard Carreau to Robert S. LaRussa, ``Extension of Preliminary 
Results: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Mexico,'' dated 
April 13, 1999.
    The deadline for issuing the preliminary results of this review is 
now no later than August 31, 1999, which is the full amount of time the 
Department can extend the preliminary results under section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. The deadline for issuing the final results of 
this review will be no later than 120 days from the publication of the 
preliminary results.

    Dated: April 13, 1999.
Bernard Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 99-11284 Filed 5-5-99; 8:45 am]
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