Notice of Postponement of Final Antidumping Determination: Live Cattle from Canada.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-833]

Notice of Postponement of Final Antidumping Determination: Live

Cattle from Canada.

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 26, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gabriel Adler or Kris Campbell, AD/CVD

Enforcement, Group II, Office 5, Import Administration, International

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

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-1442

or (202) 482-3813, respectively.

Postponement of Final Determination

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the final

determination in the antidumping investigation of live cattle from

Canada. The deadline for issuing the final determination in this

investigation is now no later than October 4, 1999.

On June 30, 1999, the Department issued its affirmative preliminary

determination in this proceeding. The notice stated we would issue our

final determination by September 13, 1999. See Notice of Preliminary

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Live Cattle from

Canada, 64 FR 36847 (July 8, 1999).

On July 2, 1999, pursuant to section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Tariff Act

of 1930, as amended, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association and the named

respondents in this investigation requested that the Department

postpone the issuance of the final determination in this investigation

for 21 days. They also requested an extension of the provisional

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

four months and three weeks, in accordance with the Department's

regulations (19 CFR 351.210(e)(2)).

The respondents' request was timely, and the Department finds no

compelling reason to deny the request. Therefore, we are extending this

final determination until October 4, 1999. Suspension of liquidation

will be extended accordingly.

In addition, because the countervailing duty investigation of live

cattle from Canada has been aligned with this investigation under

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

final determination in the countervailing duty investigation

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will be the same date, October 4, 1999, as the final determination of

the concurrent antidumping investigation.

This notice of postponement is published pursuant to section 735(a)

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(g).

Dated: July 19, 1999.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-19021 Filed 7-23-99; 8:45 am]

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