99-29342. Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Mexico: Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 216 (Tuesday, November 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 61066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29342]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-201-810]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Mexico: Extension 
of Time Limit for Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for final results of 
countervailing duty administrative review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: November 9, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Norbert Gannon at [phone] and 
Eric B. Greynolds at [phone], Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230.

Time Limits

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (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) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary results to a 
maximum of 365 days and for the final results to 180 days (or 300 days 
if the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary 
results) from the date of the publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    On September 29,1998, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on 
certain cut-to-length plate from Mexico, covering the period January 1, 
1997, through December 31, 1997 (63 FR 51893). On September 8, 1999, 
(64 FR 48796), we published the preliminary results of review. In our 
notice of preliminary results, we stated our intention to issue the 
final results of this review no later than January 6, 2000.

Extension of Final Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore the 
Department is extending the time limits for completion of the final 
results until no later than March 6, 2000. See Decision Memorandum from 
Bernard Carreau to Robert S. LaRussa, dated October 28, 1999, which is 
on file in the Central Records Unit.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: November 3, 1999.
Bernard Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 99-29342 Filed 11-8-99; 8:45 am]
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