Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determination: Live Cattle From Canada

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-833]

Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty

Determination: Live Cattle From Canada

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 16, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gabriel Adler or Kris Campbell, Office

of AD/CVD Enforcement II, Import Administration, International Trade

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

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-1442

or (202) 482-3813, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Determination

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the

preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of live

cattle from Canada. The deadline for issuing the preliminary

determination in this investigation is now no later than June 30, 1999.

On December 30, 1998, the Department published its initiation of an

antidumping investigation of live cattle from Canada. See Initiation of

Antidumping Duty Investigations: Live Cattle from Canada and Mexico, 63

FR 71886, 71889. The notice stated we would issue our preliminary

determination by May 11, 1999.

On April 7, 1999, pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff

Act of 1930, as amended, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Foundation

(the petitioners) requested that the Department postpone the issuance

of the preliminary determination in this investigation.

The petitioners' request for postponement was timely, and the

Department finds no compelling reason to deny the request. Therefore,

we are postponing the deadline for issuing this determination until no

later than June 30, 1999.

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

19 CFR 351.205(b)(2).

Dated: April 12, 1999.

Richard W. Moreland,

Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration.

Dated: April 12, 1999.

[FR Doc. 99-9610 Filed 4-15-99; 8:45 am]

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