Notice2025-07962

Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Taiwan: Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

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Published
May 7, 2025

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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Taiwan are being sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19279-19281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07962]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-856]


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Taiwan: Final 
Results of the 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 
certain corrosion-resistant steel

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products (CORE) from Taiwan are being sold in the United States at less 
than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2022, 
through June 30, 2023.

DATES: Applicable May 7, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Cohen or Anjali Mehindiratta, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4521 
or (202) 482-9127, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 4, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results in 
the Federal Register.\1\ On September 23, 2024, we received a case 
brief regarding the Preliminary Results from mandatory respondent, 
Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co., Ltd. (Prosperity).\2\ On September 30, 
2024, we received a rebuttal brief from Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (the 
petitioner).\3\ On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline for 
this administrative review by 90 days.\4\ On March 28, 2025, Commerce 
extended the deadline for issuing the final results by an additional 30 
days, to May 2, 2025, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).\5\ For a complete description of the 
events that followed the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.\6\
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    \1\ See Certain Corrosion Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan: 
Preliminary Results and Recission, In Part, of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2022-2023, 89 FR 71878 (September 4, 2024) 
(Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.
    \2\ See Prosperity's Letter, ``Prosperity Tieh's Case Brief,'' 
dated September 23, 2024. (Prosperity's Case Brief).
    \3\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Petitioners' Rebuttal Brief,'' 
dated September 30, 2024 (Petitioners' Case Brief).
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024, and filed 
to the record on March 25, 2025.
    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products 
from Taiwan: Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review,'' dated March 28, 2025.
    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain 
Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan; 2022-2023,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>7</SUP>
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    \7\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India, 
Italy, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and 
Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for 
India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390 (July 25, 
2016) (Order).
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    The products covered by this Order are certain flat-rolled steel 
products, either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant 
metals. The full description of the scope of the Order is contained in 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs are addressed in 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues that parties 
raised and to which we responded in the Issues and Decision Memorandum 
is attached as the appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision 
Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via 
Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 
registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In addition, a complete 
version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on a review of the record and comments received from 
interested parties regarding the Preliminary Results, we made certain 
changes to the preliminary margin calculation for mandatory respondent, 
Prosperity.\8\ Though we did not receive comment on the Preliminary 
Results with respect to the preliminary margin calculated for the other 
mandatory respondent subject to individual review, Sheng Yu Steel Co., 
Ltd. (SYSCO), we updated the margin calculation for SYSCO to 
incorporate an updated sales database requested of SYSCO in the post-
preliminary stage of this review.\9\ However, the incorporation of 
revised sales data from SYSCO into the preliminary margin calculation 
resulted in no change to the preliminary margin calculated for it.\10\
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    \8\ For a full description of these changes, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum; see also Memorandum, ``Final Results Margin 
Calculation for Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co., Ltd.,'' dated 
concurrently with this notice.
    \9\ See Memorandum, ``SYSCO's Analysis Memorandum for the Final 
Results of the Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from 
Taiwan Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,'' dated 
concurrently with this notice.
    \10\ Id.
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Rate for Non-Examined Companies

    The Act and Commerce's regulations do not directly address the 
establishment of a rate to be applied to individual companies not 
selected for examination when Commerce limits its examination in an 
administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. 
Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which 
provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in a market 
economy investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for 
companies which were not selected for individual review in an 
administrative review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-
others rate is normally ``an amount equal to the weighted average of 
the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for 
exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero 
or de minimis margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the 
basis of facts available{time} .''
    For the final results of this administrative review, we calculated 
a dumping margin of zero percent for SYSCO and 0.99 percent for 
Prosperity. Thus, we assign to the non-selected company, Great Grandeul 
Steel Company Limited (Samoa), a weighted-average dumping margin of 
0.99 percent, based on the rate calculated for Prosperity, the only 
rate that is not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts otherwise 
available.

Final Results of Review

    Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average 
dumping margins exist for the period July 1, 2022, through June 30, 
2023:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Sheng Yu Steel Co., Ltd.....................................        0.00
Prosperity Tieh Enterprise Co., Ltd.........................        0.99
Great Grandeul Steel Company Limited (Samoa)................        0.99
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in 
connection with these final results to interested parties within five 
days of the date of publication of this notice, in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of 
this review. The final results of this review shall be the basis for 
the assessment of antidumping

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duties on entries of merchandise covered by this review and for future 
deposits of estimated duties, where applicable.\11\
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    \11\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we calculated importer-specific 
ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount 
of dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total 
entered value reported for those sales. Where the respondent did not 
report entered value, we calculated a per-unit assessment rate for each 
importer by dividing the total amount of dumping calculated for the 
examined sales made to that importer by the total quantity associated 
with those sales. To determine whether an importer-specific, per-unit 
assessment rate is de minimis, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), 
we also calculated an importer-specific ad valorem ratio based on 
estimated entered values. Where either the respondent's weighted-
average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, within the meaning of 19 
CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an importer-specific rate is zero or de minimis, 
we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without 
regard to antidumping duties.
    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the 
respondents for which they did not know that the merchandise was 
destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate 
entries not reviewed at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the 
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\12\ For the 
company which was not selected for individual examination, we will 
instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties at an ad valorem assessment 
rate equal to the dumping margin identified for Prosperity Tieh (i.e., 
the only rate calculated in this review which is not zero, de minimis, 
or based entirely on facts available), in the ``Final Results of 
Review'' section, above.
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    \12\ 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 upon 
publication of the final results of administrative review for all 
shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on, or after, the publication date of the final results 
of review, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 
cash deposit rates for the companies identified above in the ``Final 
Results of Review'' section will be equal to the company-specific 
weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results of 
this administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers 
or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a prior 
completed segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent 
period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the original investigation, but the producer has been 
covered in a prior complete segment of this proceeding, then the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent period 
for the producer of the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all 
other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 11.04 percent,\13\ 
the all-others rate from the Third Amended Final Determination. These 
cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \13\ See Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan: Notice 
of Third Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value Pursuant to Court Decision and Partial Exclusion From 
Antidumping Duty Order, 88 FR 58245 (August 25, 2023) (Third Amended 
Final Determination).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice also 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 POR. 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

    This notice also serves as the final reminder to parties subject to 
an administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written 
notification of return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to 
judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with 
the regulations and 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)(l) and 777(i)(l) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: May 1, 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.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes from the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Whether to Apply Quarterly Cost Methodology
    Comment 2: Correction of Prosperity's Name in Federal Register 
Notice
VI. Recommendation

[FR Doc. 2025-07962 Filed 5-6-25; 8:45 am]
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