Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty: Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Mexico

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In response to requests by interested parties, the Department of Commerce ("the Department") is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on carbon and alloy steel wire rod ("wire rod") from Mexico for the period of review ("POR") April 10, 2002, through September 30, 2003. We preliminarily determine that during the POR, Hylsa Puebla, S.A. de C.V. ("Hylsa Puebla") and Siderurgica Lazaro Cardenas Las Truchas S.A. de C.V., and its affiliate, CCC Steel GmbH ("CCC Steel"), collectively ("SICARTSA") sold subject merchandise at less than normal value ("NV"). If these preliminary results are adopted in the final results of this administrative review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") to assess antidumping duties equal to the difference between the export price ("EP") and NV. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. Parties who submit comments in this segment of the proceeding should also submit with them: (1) a statement of the issues and (2) a brief summary of the comments. Further, parties submitting written comments are requested to provide the Department with an electronic version of the public version of