Postponement of Final Determination of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon- Quality Steel From Brazil

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-828); (C-351-829]

Postponement of Final Determination of Antidumping and

Countervailing Duty Investigations of Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-

Quality Steel From Brazil

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit.

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

time limit of the final determinations of the antidumping and

countervailing duty investigations of hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-

quality steel from Brazil.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 6, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Ludwig, Office of AD/CVD

Enforcement, Group III, or Chris Cassell, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement

Group II, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

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

Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3833 or (202) 482-4847,

respectively.

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 1930

(the Act), as amended, 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 (URAA). In addition, all citations

to the Department's regulations are to the regulations at 19 CFR Part

351 (1998).

Postponement of Final Determinations and Extension of Provisional

Measures

Pursuant to Section 735(a)(2) of the Tariff Act, on February 2,

1999, Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), Usinas Siderurgicas de

Minas Gerais, S.A., (USIMINAS), and Companhia Siderurgica Paulista

(COSIPA) requested that, in the event of affirmative preliminary

determination, the Department extend the final determination in this

case for the full sixty days permitted by statute. On February 4, 1999,

CSN, USIMINAS, and COSIPA also requested an extension of the

provisional measures (i.e., suspension of liquidation) period from four

to six months in accordance with the Department's regulations (19 CFR

Sec. 351.210(e)(2)). On February 12, 1999, the affirmative preliminary

determination was signed. Therefore, on February 26, 1999, in

accordance with 19 CFR Sec. 351.210(e)(2)(ii), we postponed this final

determination until no later than 105 days after the publication of the

preliminary determinations in the Federal Register (see, Postponement

of Final Determination of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty

Investigations of Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel from

Brazil 64 FR 9474. This notice serves to postpone this final

determination for an additional 30 days (i.e., until no later than 135

days after the date of publication of the preliminary determination) as

originally requested by the respondents.

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Suspension of liquidation will be extended accordingly.

In addition, because the countervailing duty investigation of hot-

rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Brazil has been

aligned with the concurrent antidumping duty investigation under

section 705(a)(1) of the Act, the time limit for completion of the

final determination in the countervailing duty investigation will be

the same date, July 6, 1999, as the final determination of the

concurrent antidumping duty investigation.

This notice of postponement is published pursuant to 19 CFR

351.210(g).

Dated: April 28, 1999.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-11285 Filed 5-5-99; 8:45 am]

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