Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products from Slovakia

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 27, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28058]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-859-801]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel 
Products from Slovakia

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 27, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LaVonne Jackson, Doug Campau, or 
Abdelali Elouaradia, Office V, DAS Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, US Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-3003, 482-1784, or (202) 482-0498, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Determination

    The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is postponing the 
preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of 
cold-rolled, flat-rolled, carbon-quality steel products from Slovakia. 
The deadline for issuing the preliminary determination in this 
investigation is now December 8, 1999.
    On June 21, 1999, the Department initiated an antidumping 
investigation of cold-rolled, flat-rolled, carbon-quality steel 
products from Slovakia. 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 13, 1999, pursuant to section 771(18)(B) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department revoked the non-
market economy status of Slovakia. As a result, the Department 
discontinued the use of its non-market economy methodology in this 
investigation, and is now proceeding using its market economy 
methodology. Thus, the Department must now gather additional data, 
review responses, and address all issues using its market economy 
investigation methodology. Consequently, in accordance with section 
733(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department concludes that this case is 
extraordinarily complicated, and that additional time is necessary to 
issue the preliminary determination. Therefore, pursuant to section 
733(c)(1) of the Act, the Department is postponing the deadline for 
issuing this determination until December 8, 1999.
    This extension is in accordance with section 733(c) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.205(b)(2).

    Dated: October 19, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-28058 Filed 10-26-99; 8:45 am]
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