Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel From Belgium; Extension of Time Limit for Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-423-806]

Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel From Belgium; Extension of Time Limit

for Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for countervailing duty

administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the

preliminary results of the first administrative review of the

countervailing duty order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from

Belgium, covering the period January 1, 1996 through December 31, 1996.

This extension is made pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff

Act of 1930, as amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 13, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Cassel or Lorenza Olivas,

Office of CVD/AD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202)

482-2786.

Postponement

Under the Act, the Department of Commerce (the Department) may

extend the deadline for completion of an administrative review if it

determines that it is not practicable to complete the review within the

statutory time limit of 365 days. The Department finds that it is not

practicable to complete the

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calendar year 1996 administrative review cut-to-length carbon steel

plate from Belgium within this time limit. (See Memorandum from Richard

W. Moreland, dated March 26, 1998, to Robert S. LaRussa ``Cut-to-Length

Carbon Steel Plate from Belgium: Extension of the Deadline for the

Preliminary Results of the 1996 Administrative Review'', which is a

public document on file in the Central Records Unit.)

In accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, the Department will

extend the time for completion of the preliminary results of this

review from May 3, 1998 to no later than August 31, 1998.

Dated: April 1, 1998.

Maria Tildon,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement, Group II.

[FR Doc. 98-9687 Filed 4-10-98; 8:45 am]

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