Stainless Steel Bar from Japan: Notice of Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-833]

Stainless Steel Bar from Japan: Notice of Extension of Time

Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limits for preliminary results of

antidumping duty administrative review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 30, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Minoo Hatten or Robin Gray, AD/CVD

Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1690 or (202) 482-4023,

respectively.

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are

references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective

date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the

Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

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Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received a request

to conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on

stainless steel bar from Japan. On March 23, 1998, the Department

initiated this administrative review covering the period February 1,

1997, through January 31, 1998.

Because of the complexity of certain issues in this case, it is not

practicable to complete this review within the time limits mandated by

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act (see Memorandum from Richard Moreland

to Robert LaRussa, Re: Extension of Time Limit for Administrative

Review of Stainless Steel Bar from Japan, October 23, 1998). Therefore,

in accordance with that section, the Department is extending the time

limits for the preliminary results to February 28, 1999. The Department

intends to issue the final results of review 120 days after the

publication of the preliminary results. This extension of the time

limit is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Dated: October 26, 1998.

Richard W. Moreland,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-29162 Filed 10-29-98; 8:45 am]

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