[Federal Register: November 29, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 228)]
[Notices]
[Page 69358]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-475-825]
Stainless Steel Sheet & Strip in Coils From Italy; Extension of
Preliminary and Final Results of Full Sunset Review of Countervailing
Duty Order
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary and Final
Results of Full Sunset Review of Countervailing Duty Order: Stainless
Steel Sheet & Strip in Coils from Italy.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending
the time limit for its preliminary and final results in the full sunset
review of the countervailing duty order on stainless steel sheet &
strip in coils (``SSSS'') from Italy.\1\ The Department intends to
issue preliminary results of this sunset review on or about December
20, 2004. In addition, the Department intends to issue its final
results of this review on or about April 27, 2005 (120 days after the
date of publication in the Federal Register of the preliminary
results).
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\1\ The Department normally will issue its preliminary results
in a full sunset review not later than 110 days after the date of
publication in the Federal Register of the notice of initiation.
However, if the Secretary determines that a full sunset review is
extraordinarily complicated under section 751(c)(5)(C) of the Tariff
Act of 1930 (``the Act''), as amended, the Secretary may extend the
period for issuing final results by not more than 90 days. See
section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: November 29, 2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hilary E. Sadler, Esq., Import
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482-4340.
Extension of Preliminary and Final Determinations
In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(C)(ii) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (``Act''), the Department may treat sunset reviews as
extraordinarily complicated if the issues are complex in order to
extend the period of time under section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act for
making a sunset determination. As discussed below, the Department has
determined that these reviews are extraordinarily complicated. On June
1, 2004, the Department initiated a sunset review of the countervailing
duty order on SSSS from Italy. See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset)
Reviews, 69 FR 30874 (June 1, 2004). The Department, in this
proceeding, determined that it would conduct a full (240-day) sunset
review of this order based on responses from the domestic and
respondent interested parties to the notice of initiation. The
Department's preliminary results of this review were scheduled for
November 22, 2004. However, several complicated issues have arisen
regarding issues raised by the parties and the effect of the recent
section 129 determination on this sunset review. See Notice of
Implementation Under Section 129 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act:
Countervailing Measures Concerning Certain Steel Products from the
European Communities, 68 FR 64858 (November 17, 2003).
Because of the numerous, complex issues in this proceeding, the
Department will extend the deadlines. Thus, the Department intends to
issue the preliminary results on or about December 20, 2004, and the
final results on or about April 27, 2005, in accordance with section
751(c)(5)(B) and (C)(ii) of the Act.
Dated: November 22, 2004.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E4-3359 Filed 11-26-04; 8:45 am]