[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 219 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61825-61826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29750]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-854, A-560-807, A-583-834, A-489-808]
Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty
Determinations: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel
Products From Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and
Turkey
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 1999.
[[Page 61826]]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaVonne Jackson and James Kemp, Office
V, DAS Group II, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3003
or (202) 482-1276, respectively.
Postponement of Preliminary Determinations
The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is postponing the
preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of
cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Indonesia,
the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Turkey. The deadline for
issuing the preliminary determinations in these investigations is now
December 8, 1999.
On June 21, 1999, the Department initiated antidumping
investigations of cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products
from Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Turkey. See
Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigations: Certain Cold-Rolled
Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Argentina, Brazil, the
People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Japan, the Russian Federation,
Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela, 64 FR
34194. The notice stated that the Department would issue its
preliminary determinations no later than 140 days after the date of
initiation (i.e., November 8, 1999). On October 19, 1999, the
Department postponed the date of the preliminary determination in the
case involving Slovakia. See Notice of Postponement of Preliminary
Antidumping Duty Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-
Quality Steel Products from Slovakia, 64 FR 57842 (October 27, 1999).
The Department issued preliminary determinations in the cases involving
Argentina, Brazil, Japan, the Russian Federation, South Africa,
Thailand and Venezuela on November 1, 1999.
The Department has now concluded, consistent with section
733(c)(1)(B) of the Act, that the four cases at issue here are
extraordinarily complicated, and that additional time is necessary to
issue the preliminary determinations, due to (a) the complexity of the
issues raised in these cases, requiring the issuance of multiple
supplemental questionnaires, (b) the inherent difficulty of
coordinating the analysis of cross-cutting issues for several related
antidumping investigations, (c) the need to allow additional time for
respondents in Taiwan and Turkey to respond to our questionnaires
resulting from the recent natural disasters in those countries, and (d)
an electrical fire at the Department's main building and technical
problems, which rendered the Import Administration computer network
inoperative for one week. Therefore, in light of the fact that parties
to this proceeding have been cooperating, pursuant to section 733(c)(1)
of the Act, the Department is postponing the deadline for issuing these
determinations until December 8, 1999.
This extension is in accordance with section 733(c) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.205(b)(2).
Dated: November 5, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-29750 Filed 11-12-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
