[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77454-77455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-30208]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-580-877, C-489-823]


Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea and the Republic of 
Turkey: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 
Countervailing Duty Investigations

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebecca Trainor at (202) 482-4007 
(Korea) or Elizabeth Eastwood (Turkey) at (202) 482-3874, AD/CVD 
Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 5, 2014, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
initiated the countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of welded line 
pipe from the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Turkey.\1\ 
Currently, the preliminary determinations are due no later than January 
9, 2015.
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    \1\ See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea and the 
Republic of Turkey: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 
Investigations, 79 FR 67419 (November 13, 2014).
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Postponement of Due Date for the Preliminary Determinations

    Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 
requires the Department to issue the preliminary determination in a CVD 
investigation within 65 days after the date on which the Department 
initiated the investigation. However, if the petitioner makes a timely 
request for a postponement, section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to postpone making the preliminary determination until no 
later than 130 days after the date on which the administering authority 
initiated the investigation.
    On December 11, 2014, the petitioners \2\ in these investigations 
timely requested that the deadline for the preliminary determination in 
each of these cases be postponed in accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(e), 
citing the extraordinarily complicated nature of the cases. Therefore, 
in accordance with section 703(c)(1)(A) of

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the Act, we are fully postponing the due date for the preliminary 
determinations to no later than 130 days after the day on which the 
investigations were initiated. However, as that date falls on a Sunday 
(i.e., March 15, 2015), the deadline for completion of the preliminary 
determinations is now March 16, 2015, the next business day.
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    \2\ The petitioners are American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 
EnergexTube (a division of JMC Steel Group), Maverick Tube 
Corporation, Northwest Pipe Company, Stupp Corporation (a division 
of Stupp Bros., Inc.), Tex-Tube Company, TMK IPSCO, and Welspun 
Tubular LLC USA (see December 11, 2014, letters on the record of 
these investigations).
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    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(l).

    Dated: December 18, 2014.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014-30208 Filed 12-23-14; 8:45 am]
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