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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 220 (Thursday, November 14, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 89955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26459]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-351-863, C-122-872, C-201-864, C-552-844]

Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Brazil, Canada, 
Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Postponement of 
Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing Duty Investigations

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

DATES: Applicable November 14, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Senoyuit (202) 482-6106, or Sofia 
Pedrelli (202) 482-4310, Office II (Brazil), Colin Thrasher (202) 482-
3004, Office V (Canada), Maria Aymerich (202) 482-0499, Office IV 
(Mexico), or Mary Kolberg (202) 482-1785, Office I (Vietnam), AD/CVD 
Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On September 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
initiated countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of U.S. imports of 
certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Brazil, Canada, 
Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).\1\ Currently, 
the preliminary determinations in these investigations are due no later 
than November 29, 2024.
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    \1\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil, 
Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of 
Countervailing Duty Investigations, 89 FR 80204 (October 2, 2024).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 
requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in a CVD 
investigation within 65 days after the date on which Commerce initiated 
the investigation. However, section 703(c)(1) of the Act permits 
Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination in a CVD 
investigation until no later than 130 days after the date on which 
Commerce initiated the investigation if: (A) the petitioner makes a 
timely request for an extension of the period within which the 
determination must be made; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties 
concerned are cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily 
complicated, and that additional time is necessary to make the 
preliminary determination. Under 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must 
submit a request for postponement 25 days or more before the scheduled 
date of the preliminary determination and must state the reasons for 
the request. Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling 
reasons to deny the request.
    On November 4, 2024, Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI), Nucor Corporation 
(Nucor), United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel), Wheeling-Nippon 
Steel, Inc. (Wheeling-Nippon), and the United Steel, Paper and 
Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service 
Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (the USW), the petitioners in 
the respective investigations, timely requested that Commerce postpone 
the preliminary determinations in the investigations.\2\ The 
petitioners requested postponement of the preliminary determinations in 
the investigations so that Commerce can fully analyze the forthcoming 
questionnaire responses of the mandatory respondents and issue 
supplemental questionnaires, as necessary.\3\
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    \2\ We note that Nucor is not a petitioner with respect to the 
CVD investigation on CORE from Mexico, and U.S. Steel, Wheeling-
Nippon, and the USW are not petitioners with respect to the CVD 
investigation on CORE from Canada. See Brazil Petitioners' Letter, 
``Request to Extend the Deadline for the Preliminary 
Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024; see also Canada 
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request to Extend the Deadline for the 
Preliminary Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024; Mexico 
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request to Extend the Deadline for the 
Preliminary Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024; and Vietnam 
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request to Extend the Deadline for the 
Preliminary Determination,'' dated November 4, 2024.
    \3\ Id.
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    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioners submitted 
their requests for postponement of the preliminary determinations in 
the investigations 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the 
preliminary determinations and stated the reasons for their requests. 
Commerce finds no compelling reason to deny the requests. Therefore, in 
accordance with section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, Commerce is postponing 
the deadline for the preliminary determinations in the investigations 
to no later than 130 days after the date on which it initiated the 
investigations, i.e., February 3, 2025.\4\
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    \4\ Postponing the preliminary determinations to 130 days after 
initiation of the investigations would make the deadline Sunday, 
February 2, 2025. Commerce's practice dictates that, where a 
deadline falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the appropriate 
deadline is the next business day, in this case Monday, February 3, 
2025. See Notice of Clarification: Application of ``Next Business 
Day'' Rule for Administrative Determination Deadlines Pursuant to 
the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005).
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    Pursuant to section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), 
the deadline for the final determinations in the investigations will 
continue to be 75 days after the date of the preliminary 
determinations.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).

    Dated: November 7, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-26459 Filed 11-13-24; 8:45 am]
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