Certain Stainless Steel Wire Rod From India: Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-808]

Certain Stainless Steel Wire Rod From India: 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 administrative review.

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

the time limit for the preliminary results of the antidumping

administrative review on certain stainless steel wire rod from India.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 9, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Bailey or Rick Johnson, AD/CVD

Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

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

Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0413 or (202) 482-3818,

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. In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the

current regulations, codified at 19 CFR part 351 (1998).

Background

On October 20, 1993, the Department published in the Federal

Register (58 FR 54110) the antidumping duty order on certain stainless

steel wire rod from India. On December 8, 1998, the Department

published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to request an

administrative review of this antidumping duty order (63 FR 67646).

On December 29, 1998, Viraj, an Indian producer, requested an

administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain

stainless steel wire rod from India. In accordance with 19 CFR

351.221(b), we initiated the review of Viraj on January 25, 1999 (64 FR

3682), covering the period of December 1, 1997 through November 30,

1998.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

Because it is not practicable to complete this review within the

time limits mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department

is extending the time limits for the preliminary results 120 days to

January 3, 2000 (for a further discussion, see Memorandum from Joseph

A. Spetrini to Robert S. LaRussa, Extension of Time Limit for the

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Reviews: Certain

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Stainless Steel Wire Rod from India, dated August 25, 1999).

The final results continue to be due 120 days after the publication

of the preliminary results.

Dated: August 31, 1999.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

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