Notice2025-03836

Silicon Metal From Malaysia: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

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Published
March 11, 2025

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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that silicon metal from Malaysia was not sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), August 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11702-11703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03836]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-557-820]


Silicon Metal From Malaysia: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2022-2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
silicon metal from Malaysia was not sold in the United States at less 
than normal value during the period of review (POR), August 1, 2022, 
through July 31, 2023.

DATES: Applicable March 11, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel Jennings, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1110.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 13, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register 
the preliminary results of the 2022-2023 administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on silicon metal from Malaysia, and invited 
interested parties to comment.\1\ Because no comments were submitted by 
interested parties, we have adopted the Preliminary Results as the 
final results of this review \2\ and no decision memorandum accompanies 
this Federal Register notice. Commerce conducted this administrative 
review in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Silicon Metal from Malaysia: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023, 89 FR 74910 
(September 13, 2024) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM); see also Silicon Metal from 
Malaysia: Antidumping Duty Order, 86 FR 46677 (August 19, 2021) 
(Order).
    \2\ Although Commerce updated its analysis to incorporate the 
revised database timely submitted by PMB Silicon Sdn Bhd (PMB 
Silicon) in response to the supplemental questionnaire issued after 
the Preliminary Results, the underlying rationale and resulting 
weighted-average margin calculated for the company remain unchanged. 
See PMB Silicon's Letter, ``Silicon Metal from Malaysia Supplemental 
Response,'' dated October 1, 2024; see also Memorandum, ``Final 
Analysis Memorandum for PMB Silicon Sdn. Bhn.,'' dated concurrently 
with this notice (Analysis Memo).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by this Order is all forms and sizes of 
silicon metal, including silicon metal powder. For a complete 
description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Results.\3\
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    \3\ See Preliminary Results PDM.
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Final Results of Review

    Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average 
dumping margin exists for the period August 1, 2022, through July 31, 
2023:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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PMB Silicon Sdn. Bhd........................................        0.00
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Disclosure

    Although there is no change to the weighted-average dumping margin 
calculated in the Preliminary Results for PMB Silicon, Commerce updated 
its analysis for these final results to incorporate a revised database 
submitted by PMB Silicon after the Preliminary Results.\4\ Commerce 
intends to disclose the calculations performed for these final results 
to parties in this proceeding within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.224(b).
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    \4\ See Analysis Memo.
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries covered by this review. Where the respondent's weighted-average 
dumping margin is either zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 
percent), we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries 
without regard to antidumping duties. Accordingly, because PMB 
Silicon's weighted-average dumping margin is zero percent, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to 
antidumping duties.
    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by PMB 
Silicon for which it did not know its merchandise was destined for the 
United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at 
the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\5\
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    \5\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the 
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will 
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties 
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 
90 days of publication).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for PMB Silicon will 
be the rates established in the final results of this administrative 
review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers or exporters not 
covered in this administrative review but covered in a prior segment of 
the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this 
proceeding; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the original less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will be the 
rate established for the most recently completed segment of this 
proceeding for the producer of the subject merchandise; and (4) the 
cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will 
continue to be 12.27 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
LTFV investigation.\6\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed,

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shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \6\ See Order, 86 FR at 46678.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
an APO of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of 
proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern business proprietary 
information in this segment of the proceeding. Timely written 
notification of the return/destruction of APO materials, or conversion 
to judicial protective order, is hereby requested. Failure to comply 
with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable 
violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5) and 
19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

    Dated: March 5, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the 
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-03836 Filed 3-10-25; 8:45 am]
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