[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 86 (Friday, May 4, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25252-25253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-8586]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-351-826)


Certain Small Diameter Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, 
Line and Pressure Pipe from Brazil: Notice of Extension of Time Limit 
for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 4, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Bailey or Dena Crossland, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 7, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
0193 or (202) 482-3362, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 29, 2006, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation of administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on certain small diameter seamless carbon 
and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from Brazil, covering 
the period August 1, 2005, through July 31, 2006. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 71 FR 57465 
(September 29, 2006). The preliminary results for this review are 
currently due no later than May 3, 2007.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of an 
administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested and the 
final results of review within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary

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results are published. If it is not practicable to complete the review 
within the time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend these deadlines to a maximum of 365 days and 180 
days, respectively.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    The deadline for the preliminary results of this administrative 
review is currently May 3, 2007. The Department determines that 
completion of the preliminary results within the statutory time period 
is not practicable. The Department issued a supplemental sales and cost 
questionnaire to respondent V&M do Brasil, S.A. (``VMB'') to gather 
information with respect to how VMB reported certain production costs 
and calculated its interest expense ratio on April 18, 2007, and the 
supplemental questionnaire response is currently due on May 2, 2007. 
The Department requires additional time to review and analyze VMB's 
supplemental questionnaire response, and to issue additional 
supplemental cost questionnaires, if necessary.
    Therefore, given the additional time needed to conduct complete 
analyses for this administrative review, in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of these preliminary results by an additional 60 days to no 
later than July 2, 2007. The final results continue to be due no later 
than 120 days after the publication of the notice of the preliminary 
results.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: April 30, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-8586 Filed 5-3-07; 8:45 am]
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