Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipes from Thailand; Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Time Limits

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-807]

Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipes from Thailand; Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review: Time Limits

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limits of preliminary results of

review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limits of the

preliminary of the antidumping duty administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from

Thailand. The review covers one manufacturer/exporter of the subject

merchandise to the United States for the period July 1, 1997, through

June 30, 1998.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 10, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zev Primor or Wendy Frankel, Office of

AD/CVD Enforcement, Group II, Office IV, Import Administration, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone: (202) 482-4114, or (202) 482-5849,

respectively.

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POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW: The

Department initiated the administrative review of the antidumping duty

order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Thailand on August

27, 1998 (63 FR 45796). The current deadline for the preliminary

results in this review is April 1, 1999. In accordance with section

751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (``the Act''), as amended, the

Department finds that it is not practicable to complete this

administrative review within the original time frame. (See memorandum

from Holly Kuga to Robert LaRussa, dated March 3, 1999). Thus the

Department is extending the time limit for completion of the

preliminary results until August 2, 1999, which is 365 days after the

last day of the anniversary month of the order. The final determination

will occur within 120 days of the publication of the preliminary

results.

Dated: March 4, 1999.

Holly A. Kuga,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-5946 Filed 3-9-99; 8:45 am]

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