[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 185 (Friday, September 24, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58351-58352]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-24019]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-423-809]


Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from Belgium: Extension of Time 
Limits for Preliminary and Final Results of Full Five-year (``Sunset'') 
Review of Countervailing Duty Order

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 24, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Montoro, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0238.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 2, 2010, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
initiated the second sunset review of the countervailing duty order on 
stainless steel plate in coils from Belgium in accordance with section 
751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``Act''). See Initiation 
of Five-year (``Sunset'') Review, 75 FR 30777 (June 2, 2010). Within 
the deadline specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i), the Department 
received notices of intent to participate on behalf of Allegheny Ludlum 
Corporation and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, 
Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers 
International Union, who were the petitioners in the original 
investigation. Those parties claimed interested party status under 
section 771(9)(C) and (D) of the Act, as manufacturers of a domestic 
like product and as a certified union representing workers in the 
domestic industry producing certain stainless steel plate in coils. The 
Department received substantive responses from the petitioners within 
the deadline specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i). The Department also 
received substantive responses in a timely manner from the following 
respondent interested parties: the Government of Belgium and 
ArcelorMittal Stainless Belgium N.V. Domestic and respondent interested 
parties also submitted timely rebuttal comments.
    On July 22, 2010, after analyzing the submission and rebuttals from 
interested parties and finding the substantive responses adequate, the 
Department determined to conduct a full sunset review. See Memorandum 
from Yasmin Nair, International Trade Compliance Analyst, to Susan H. 
Kuhbach, Director, AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, entitled ``Adequacy 
Determination in Countervailing Duty Sunset Review of Certain Stainless 
Steel Plate in Coils from Belgium,'' dated July 22, 2010.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary and Final Results of Reviews

    The Act provides for the completion of a full sunset review within 
240 days of the publication of the initiation notice. See section 
751(c)(5)(A) of the Act. In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the 
Act, the Department may extend the period of time for making its 
determination by not more than 90 days, if it determines that the 
review is extraordinarily complicated.
    We determine that this review is extraordinarily complicated, 
pursuant to sections 751(c)(5)(C)(i) and (ii) of the Act, because there 
are a large number of programs under consideration for which the 
Department must analyze numerous complex issues. Therefore, the 
Department requires additional time to complete its analysis. 
Accordingly, the Department is extending the deadline in this 
proceeding by 90 days in accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the 
Act . As a result, the Department intends to issue the final results of 
this full sunset review by April 28, 2011.
    With respect to the preliminary results of this full sunset review, 
the Department's regulations, at 19 CFR 351.218(f)(3), provide that the 
Department normally will issue its preliminary results in a full sunset 
review not later than 110 days after the initiation. However, because 
of the reasons cited above, we require additional time to conduct the 
analysis required for the preliminary results. Therefore, we are 
extending the deadline for the preliminary results of this full sunset 
review by 90 days and intend to issue those preliminary results by 
December 19, 2010. However, December 19, 2010, falls on a Sunday, and 
it is the Department's long-standing practice to issue a determination 
the next business day when the statutory deadline falls on a weekend, 
federal holiday, or any other day when the

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Department is closed. 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). Accordingly, the deadline for completion of the preliminary 
results of this full sunset review is now no later than December 20, 
2010.
    This notice is issued in accordance with sections 751(c)(5)(B) and 
(C) of the Act.

    Dated: September 20, 2010.
Susan H. Kuhbach,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-24019 Filed 9-23-10; 8:45 am]
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