Stainless Steel Bar From India; Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[A-533-810]

Stainless Steel Bar From India; Extension of Time Limit for

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending

the time limit for the preliminary results in the administrative review

of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from India,

covering the period August 4, 1994, through January 31, 1996, since it

is not practicable to complete the review within the time limits

mandated by the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, section 751(a)(3)(A).

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 20, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Yeske or Vince Kane, Import

Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20230; telephone (202) 482-0189 or 482-2815, respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of

1930, as amended (``the Act''), 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. In addition, unless

otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are

to the current regulations, as amended by the interim regulations

published in the Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On February 29, 1996, the Department received a request to conduct

an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless

steel bar from India. On March 19, 1996, the Department published in

the Federal Register a notice of initiation of an administrative review

of Isibars, an exporter of stainless steel bar to the United States,

covering the period August 4, 1994, through January 31, 1996 (61 FR

11184). In our notice of initiation, we stated that we intended to

issue the final results of this review no later than February 28, 1997.

Postponement of Preliminary Results of Review

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act requires the Department to make a

preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the

anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested. However,

if it is not practicable to issue the preliminary results in 245 days,

section 751(a)(3)(A) allows the Department to extend this time period

to 365 days.

Because this review was recently transferred between offices, and

it is the first review of this antidumping duty order under the new

law, we determine that it is not practicable to issue the preliminary

results within 245 days. Accordingly, the deadline for issuing the

preliminary results of this review is now no later than February 28,

1997. The deadline for issuing the final results of this review will be

120 days from the publication of the preliminary results.

This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the

Act.

Dated: August 14, 1996.

Susan H. Kuhbach,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 96-21206 Filed 8-19-96; 8:45 am]

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