Carbon Steel Wire Rod From Argentina: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Five-Year Reviews

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-357-004 and A-357-007]

Carbon Steel Wire Rod From Argentina: Extension of Time Limit for

Preliminary Results of Five-Year Reviews

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

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

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

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

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

suspended countervailing duty investigation and the antidumping duty

order on carbon steel wire rod from Argentina. Based on adequate

responses from domestic and respondent interested parties, the

Department is conducting full sunset reviews to determine whether

revocation of the suspended countervailing duty investigation would be

likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of a countervailable

subsidy and whether revocation of the antidumping duty order would be

likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping. As a result of

these

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extensions, the Department intends to issue its preliminary results not

later than May 23, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 26, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott E. Smith or Melissa G. Skinner,

Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6397, or (202) 482-1560

respectively.

Extension of Preliminary Results

The Department has determined that the sunset reviews of the

suspended countervailing duty investigation and the antidumping duty

order on carbon steel wire rod from Argentina are 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 these reviews until not later

than May 23, 1999, in accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act.

The final results of these reviews will, therefore, be due not later

than September 28, 1999.

Dated: February 22, 1999.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-4751 Filed 2-25-99; 8:45 am]

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