Antidumping: Large Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe from Japan

Federal Register: March 3, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 40)

Notices

Page 9218-9219

From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

DOCID:fr03mr09-29

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-588-850

Certain Large Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From Japan: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary

Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

DATES: Effective Date: March 2, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Montoro or Nancy Decker, AD/

CVD Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade

Administration, Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0238 or (202) 482-0196, respectively.

Background

On July 30, 2008, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') published in

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the Federal Register the initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain large diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from Japan, covering the period June 1, 2007, through May 31, 2008. See Initiation of

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, Request for

Revocation in Part, and Deferral of Administrative Review, 73 FR 44220

(July 30, 2008). The preliminary results for this administrative review are currently due no later than March 2, 2009.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the

Act''), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of an administrative review 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 results are published. 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 these deadlines to a maximum of 365 days and 180 days, respectively.

The review covers four manufacturers/exporters: JFE Steel

Corporation; Nippon Steel Corporation; NKK Tubes; and Sumitomo Metal

Industries, Ltd. These four manufacturer/exporters submitted letters to the Department certifying that they made no shipments or entries for consumption in the United States of the subject merchandise during the period of review (POR). In response to the Department's query to U.S.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP), CBP data showed POR entries for consumption of subject merchandise that were manufactured by one of the respondent companies. The information regarding these entries has been placed on the record of this review under the terms of the administrative protective order. The Department is soliciting additional information and comments regarding these entries. Because the Department requires additional time to analyze the additional information and comments, it is not practicable to complete this review within the original time limit (i.e., March 2, 2009). Therefore, the

Department is extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results by 120 days to June 30, 2009, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) of the

Department's regulations.

We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

Dated: February 26, 2009.

John M. Andersen,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing

Duty Operations.

FR Doc. E9-4470 Filed 3-2-09; 8:45 am

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