[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 98 (Friday, May 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30868-30869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10934]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-904, A-542-804, A-549-844, A-489-846]


Certain Steel Nails From India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the 
Republic of Turkey: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 
Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations

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

DATES: Applicable May 20, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Lindgren (India), Allison 
Hollander (Sri Lanka), Laurel LaCivita and Matthew Palmer (Thailand), 
or David Crespo (Republic of Turkey (Turkey)), AD/CVD Operations, 
Office I, II, or III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1671, (202) 482-2805, 
(202) 482-4243, (202) 482-1678, or (202) 482-3693, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 19, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
initiated less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations of imports of 
certain steel nails (steel nails) from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and 
Turkey.\1\ Currently, the

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preliminary determinations are due no later than June 8, 2022.
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    \1\ See Certain Steel Nails from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and 
the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 
Investigations, 87 FR 3965 (January 26, 2022).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in an 
LTFV investigation within 140 days of the date on which Commerce 
initiated the investigation. However, section 733(c)(1) of the Act 
permits Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination until no 
later than 190 days after the date on which Commerce initiated the 
investigation if: (A) The petitioner makes a timely request for a 
postponement; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties concerned are 
cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated, and 
that additional time is necessary to make a 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 May 9, 2022, Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc. (the petitioner) 
submitted a timely request that Commerce postpone the preliminary 
determinations in these LTFV investigations.\2\ The petitioner stated 
that it requests postponement because: (1) Commerce has not yet 
received complete responses to its initial and supplemental 
questionnaires from the respondents in these investigations; and (2) 
the petitioner has identified deficiencies in the responses already 
provided by the respondents that must be remedied prior to Commerce's 
issuance of its preliminary determinations.\3\
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    \2\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Certain Steel Nails from India, 
Sri Lanka, Thailand and Turkey--Petitioner's Request for 
Postponement of Preliminary Determinations,'' dated May 9, 2022.
    \3\ Id.
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    For the reasons stated above, and because there are no compelling 
reasons to deny the request, Commerce, in accordance with section 
733(c)(1)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(e), is postponing the 
deadline for these preliminary determinations by 50 days (i.e., 190 
days after the date on which these investigations were initiated). As a 
result, Commerce will issue its preliminary determinations no later 
than July 28, 2022. In accordance with section 735(a)(1) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the deadline for the final determinations in 
these investigations will continue to be 75 days after the date of the 
preliminary determinations, unless postponed at a later date.

Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).

    Dated: May 16, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2022-10934 Filed 5-19-22; 8:45 am]
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