Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from Turkey: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Five-Year Review:

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-489-502]

Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from Turkey: Extension of

Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Five-Year Review:

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of

Five-Year (``Sunset'') Review.

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

the time limit for the preliminary results of the sunset review on the

countervailing duty on welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey.

Based on adequate responses from domestic interested parties and

respondent interested parties, the Department is conducting a full

sunset review to determine whether revocation of the order would be

likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of a countervailable

subsidy. As a result of this extension, the Department intends to issue

its preliminary results not later than November 19, 1999 and its final

results not later March 28, 2000.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 27, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathryn B. McCormick or Melissa G.

Skinner, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

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

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1698 or (202) 482-1560,

respectively.

Extension of Preliminary Results

The Department has determined that the sunset review of the

countervailing duty order on welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from

Turkey is extraordinarily complicated. In accordance with section

751(c)(5)(C)(v) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''),

the Department may treat a review as extraordinarily complicated if it

is a review of a transition order (i.e., an order in effect on January

1, 1995). See section 751(c)(6)(C) of the Act. The Department is

extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results of

this review until not later than November 19, 1999 and the final

results until not later than March 28, 2000, in accordance with section

751(c)(5)(B) of the Act.

Dated: August 23, 1999.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-22355 Filed 8-26-99; 8:45 am]

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