Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determinations: Steel Wire Rod From Canada, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-826, A-428-822, A-274-802, and A-307-813]

Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty

Determinations: Steel Wire Rod From Canada, Germany, Trinidad and

Tobago, and Venezuela

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 17, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Braier (Canada and Trinidad

and Tobago), at (202) 482-3818; Judith Wey Rudman (Germany), at (202)

482-0192; or David J. Goldberger (Venezuela), at (202) 482-4136, Import

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

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

20230.

POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATIONS: On March 18, 1997, the

Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated antidumping duty

investigations of imports of steel wire rod from Canada, Germany,

Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela (62 FR 13854, March 24, 1997). The

notice of initiation stated that unless extended, we would issue our

preliminary determinations not later than August 5, 1997.

On July 3, 1997, petitioners, Connecticut Steel Corp., Co-Steel

Raritan, GS Industries, Inc., Keystone Steel & Wire Co., North Star

Steel Texas, Inc., and Northwestern Steel & Wire Co., made a timely

request for a postponement of the preliminary determinations in these

investigations to 190 days after initiation, or September 24, 1997.

This request was made pursuant to section 733(c)(1) of the Tariff Act

of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 353.15(c) of the Department's

regulations. Petitioners requested a postponement to ensure that the

Department has adequate time to analyze the responses in these complex

investigations. Therefore, for the reasons identified by the

petitioners and absent any compelling reasons to deny the request, the

Department is postponing the date of the preliminary determinations in

these investigations until no later than September 24, 1997.

This notice is published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) of the Act,

and 19 CFR 353.15(d).

Dated: July 11, 1997.

Jeffrey P. Bialos,

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

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