On February 13, the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) announced its decision to rescind the antidumping duty (AD) administrative review of carbon steel butt-weld
pipe fittings from
Thailand, because the sole request for the review in question was withdrawn by Thai Benkan Co., Ltd. (TBC), the Thai producer of the subject merchandise.
On August 26, 2008, in response to the request of TBC, the DOC had initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain carbon steel butt-weld
pipe fittings from
Thailand for the period of July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008.
On January 15, 2009, TBC withdrew its request for an administrative review. Although the DOC did not receive TBC's withdrawal letter within the 90-day time limit, it determined that it was reasonable to accept this letter of withdrawal because it did not expend significant resources in the conduct of this review and because it received no other requests for the review of TBC.