Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
The Department of Commerce (the Department) is aligning the final countervailing duty (CVD) determination for Certain Magnesia Carbon Bricks (Bricks) from the People's Republic of China (PRC) with the final determinations of the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of Bricks from the PRC and Mexico.
Toni Page and Summer Avery, AD/CVD Operations, Office 6, Operations, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 7867, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1398 and (202) 482–4052, respectively.
On August 18, 2009, the Department initiated the CVD investigation of Bricks from the PRC and the AD investigations of Bricks from the PRC and Mexico.
According to 19 CFR 351.210(i), a petitioner must submit a written request to postpone the final CVD determination to the date of final determination in a companion AD investigation within five days of the date of publication of the preliminary CVD determination. However, because the five-day deadline is not a statutory deadline, the Department has discretion, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.302(b), to extend the deadline for filing an alignment request. The Department has decided to accept Petitioner's belated request to align the final CVD determination with the final AD determinations. The alignment of the final determination in this CVD investigation will ensure that the Department can thoroughly analyze the complicated and novel issues, which have arisen. In addition, the alignment will allow interested parties adequate time to comment on the Department's analyses.
Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.302(b), we are hereby extending the deadline for filing the alignment request and, in accordance with section 705(a)(1) of the Act, we are aligning the final CVD determination with the final AD determinations in the companion Bricks AD investigations. Consequently, the final CVD determination will be issued on the same date as the final AD determinations, which are currently scheduled to be issued no later than May 10, 2010, unless the final AD determinations are extended.
This determination is issued and published pursuant to Section 705(a)(1) of the Act.