Federal Register: May 6, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 87)NoticesPage 24321-24322From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

DOCID:fr06my99-21

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-351-828); (C-351-829Postponement of Final Determination of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon- Quality Steel From Brazil

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the time limit of the final determinations of the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon- quality steel from Brazil.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 6, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Ludwig, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III, or Chris Cassell, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement Group II, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3833 or (202) 482-4847, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

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

Postponement of Final Determinations and Extension of Provisional Measures

Pursuant to Section 735(a)(2) of the Tariff Act, on February 2, 1999, Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais, S.A., (USIMINAS), and Companhia Siderurgica Paulista (COSIPA) requested that, in the event of affirmative preliminary determination, the Department extend the final determination in this case for the full sixty days permitted by statute. On February 4, 1999, CSN, USIMINAS, and COSIPA also requested an extension of the provisional measures (i.e., suspension of liquidation) period from four to six months in accordance with the Department's regulations (19 CFR Sec. 351.210(e)(2)). On February 12, 1999, the affirmative preliminary determination was signed. Therefore, on February 26, 1999, in accordance with 19 CFR Sec. 351.210(e)(2)(ii), we postponed this final determination until no later than 105 days after the publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register (see, Postponement of Final Determination of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel from Brazil 64 FR 9474. This notice serves to postpone this final determination for an additional 30 days (i.e., until no later than 135 days after the date of publication of the preliminary determination) as originally requested by the respondents.

[Page 24322]Suspension of liquidation will be extended accordingly.

In addition, because the countervailing duty investigation of hot- rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Brazil has been aligned with the concurrent antidumping duty investigation under section 705(a)(1) of the Act, the time limit for completion of the final determination in the countervailing duty investigation will be the same date, July 6, 1999, as the final determination of the concurrent antidumping duty investigation.

This notice of postponement is published pursuant to 19 CFR 351.210(g).

Dated: April 28, 1999. Richard W. Moreland, Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

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