[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 6140]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2848]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-806, A-484-801]


Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide From Japan and Greece: Notice of 
Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Administrative Reviews

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

ACTION:  Notice of extension of time limits for preliminary results of 
antidumping duty administrative reviews.

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SUMMARY:  The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for 
the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative reviews 
of the antidumping duty orders on electrolytic manganese dioxide from 
Japan and Greece. The period of review is April 1, 1998, through March 
31, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  February 8, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Larry Tabash, Hermes Pinilla or 
Richard Rimlinger, AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-5047, (202) 482-3477 or (202) 482-4477, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, unless 
otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the 
Department's) regulations are to 19 CFR Part 351 (1998).

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    The Department has received a request to conduct administrative 
reviews of the antidumping duty orders on electrolytic manganese 
dioxide from Japan and Greece. On May 20, 1999, and June 30, 1999, the 
Department initiated these administrative reviews covering the period 
April 1, 1998, through March 31, 1999 (64 FR 28973 and 64 FR 35124, 
respectively).
    On December 28, 1999, we extended the preliminary results for both 
cases from December 31, 1999, to February 14, 2000. Because it is not 
practicable to complete these reviews by February 14, 2000, due to the 
complexity of the issues involved (see Memoranda from Laurie Parkhill 
to Richard W. Moreland, Extension of Time Limit for Administrative 
Reviews of Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide from Japan and Greece, 
February 1, 2000), the Department is extending the time limits for the 
preliminary results by 75 days from the current deadline of February 
14, 2000. Thus, the extended deadline for issuance of the preliminary 
results is May 1, 2000. The Department intends to issue the final 
results of reviews 120 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results. This extension of the time limit is in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).

    Dated: February 1, 2000.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-2848 Filed 2-7-00; 8:45 am]
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