Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products From Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Turkey

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-854, A-560-807, A-583-834, A-489-808]

Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty

Determinations: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel

Products From Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and

Turkey

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 1999.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaVonne Jackson and James Kemp, Office

V, DAS Group II, Import Administration, International Trade

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

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3003

or (202) 482-1276, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is postponing the

preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of

cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Indonesia,

the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Turkey. The deadline for

issuing the preliminary determinations in these investigations is now

December 8, 1999.

On June 21, 1999, the Department initiated antidumping

investigations of cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products

from Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Turkey. See

Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigations: Certain Cold-Rolled

Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Argentina, Brazil, the

People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Japan, the Russian Federation,

Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela, 64 FR

34194. The notice stated that the Department would issue its

preliminary determinations no later than 140 days after the date of

initiation (i.e., November 8, 1999). On October 19, 1999, the

Department postponed the date of the preliminary determination in the

case involving Slovakia. See Notice of Postponement of Preliminary

Antidumping Duty Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-

Quality Steel Products from Slovakia, 64 FR 57842 (October 27, 1999).

The Department issued preliminary determinations in the cases involving

Argentina, Brazil, Japan, the Russian Federation, South Africa,

Thailand and Venezuela on November 1, 1999.

The Department has now concluded, consistent with section

733(c)(1)(B) of the Act, that the four cases at issue here are

extraordinarily complicated, and that additional time is necessary to

issue the preliminary determinations, due to (a) the complexity of the

issues raised in these cases, requiring the issuance of multiple

supplemental questionnaires, (b) the inherent difficulty of

coordinating the analysis of cross-cutting issues for several related

antidumping investigations, (c) the need to allow additional time for

respondents in Taiwan and Turkey to respond to our questionnaires

resulting from the recent natural disasters in those countries, and (d)

an electrical fire at the Department's main building and technical

problems, which rendered the Import Administration computer network

inoperative for one week. Therefore, in light of the fact that parties

to this proceeding have been cooperating, pursuant to section 733(c)(1)

of the Act, the Department is postponing the deadline for issuing these

determinations until December 8, 1999.

This extension is in accordance with section 733(c) of the Act and

19 CFR 351.205(b)(2).

Dated: November 5, 1999.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-29750 Filed 11-12-99; 8:45 am]

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