Notice2025-09246
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results and Rescission in Part of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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May 22, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products (CTL plate) from the Republic of Korea (Korea). The period of review (POR) is February 1, 2023, through January 31, 2024. Commerce preliminarily finds that the producers/exporters subject to this administrative review did not make sales of subject merchandise at prices below normal value during the POR. We are rescinding this administrative review, in part, with respect to four companies. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 98 (Thursday, May 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21891-21893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09246]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-580-836]
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From
the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results and Rescission in Part of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an
administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain
cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products (CTL plate) from the
Republic of Korea (Korea). The period of review (POR) is February 1,
2023, through January 31, 2024. Commerce preliminarily finds that the
producers/exporters subject to this administrative review did not make
sales of subject merchandise at prices below normal value during the
POR. We are rescinding this administrative review, in part, with
respect to four companies. We invite interested parties to comment on
these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable May 22, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Williams, AD/CVD
Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5166.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 10, 2000, Commerce published in the Federal Register
the AD order on CTL plate from Korea.\1\ On February 2, 2024, Commerce
published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to request an
administrative review of the Order for the POR.\2\ On April 9, 2024,
based on timely requests for an administrative review, Commerce
initiated this administrative review of the Order with respect to six
companies \3\ and subsequently selected Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.,
and Hyundai Steel Company as the mandatory respondents.\4\ On October
10, 2024, we extended the deadline to issue these preliminary
results.\5\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this
administrative review by seven days.\6\ On December 9, 2024, Commerce
tolled certain administrative deadlines in this administrative review
by an additional 90 days.\7\ Accordingly, the deadline for these
preliminary results is now June 5, 2025.
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\1\ See Notice of Amendment of Final Determinations of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-
Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products from France, India,
Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea, 65 FR 6585
(February 10, 2000) (Order).
\2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 89 FR 7366, 7367
(February 2, 2024).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 24780, 24787 (April 9, 2024)
(Initiation Notice).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Companies to be Individually Examined,''
dated June 21, 2024.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated
October 10, 2024.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is CTL plate from Korea. For a
full
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description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.\8\
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\8\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel
Plate Products from the Republic of Korea: Decision Memorandum for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-
2024,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an
administrative review, in whole or in part, if the parties that
requested the review withdraw their review requests within 90 days of
the date of publication of the notice of initiation for the requested
review.\9\ On July 8, 2024, Nucor Corporation, SSAB Enterprises, LLC,
and Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. withdrew their request for the review of Ajin
Industrial Co., Ltd., Daeik Eng Co., Ltd., Ohsung Co., Ltd., and Samjin
Lnd Co., Ltd., within the 90-day deadline.\10\ No other parties
requested an administrative review of these four companies. Therefore,
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding the
administrative review of Ajin Industrial Co., Ltd., Daeik Eng Co.,
Ltd., Ohsung Co., Ltd., and Samjin Lnd Co., Ltd.
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\9\ See Initiation Notice, 89 FR at 24781.
\10\ See Nucor Corporation, SSAB Enterprises, LLC, and
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.'s Letter, ``Partial Withdrawal of Request for
Administrative Review,'' dated July 8, 2024.
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
We calculated export price and constructed export price in accordance
with section 772 of the Act, and we calculated normal value in
accordance with section 773 of the Act.
For a full description of the methodology underlying these
preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of
the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached
as Appendix I to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a
public document and is made available to the public 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
Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
Preliminary Results of Review
We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted-
average dumping margins exist for the period February 1, 2023, through
January 31, 2024:
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Weighted-
average
Producer and/or exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd................................. 0.00
Hyundai Steel Company....................................... 0.00
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations and analysis performed to
interested parties in the preliminary results of this administrative
review within five days of the public announcement or, if there is no
public announcement, within five days after publication of this
notice.\11\
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\11\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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Public Comment
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), interested parties to submit
case briefs to Commerce to no later than 21 days after the date of the
publication of this notice.\12\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues
raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after
the date for filing case briefs.\13\ Interested parties who submit case
briefs or rebuttal briefs in this administrative review must submit:
(1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of
authorities.\14\
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\12\ See also 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
\13\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1); see also Administrative
Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29,
2023) (APO and Service Final Rule).
\14\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior
proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an
executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages
total, including footnotes. In this administrative review, we instead
request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their
briefs a public executive summary for each issue raised in their
briefs.\15\ Further, we request that interested parties limit their
public executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not
including citations. We intend to use the public executive summaries as
the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision
memorandum that will accompany the final results of this administrative
review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for
relevant citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note
that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\16\
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\15\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\16\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce via ACCESS by
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register. Hearing requests should contain:
(1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of
participants and whether any participant is a foreign national; and (3)
a list of issues to be discussed. Oral presentations at the hearing
will be limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. If a
request for a hearing is made, parties will be notified of the date,
time, and location of the hearing.\17\ Parties should confirm by
telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing two days before
the scheduled hearing date.
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\17\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review, including the results of its
analysis of issues raised in written briefs, no later than 120 days
after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register,
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
Assessment Rates
Upon completion of the final results of this administrative review,
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, Commerce shall determine,
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review.\18\ If a
respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis
(i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in the final results of this review, we
intend to calculate an importer-specific assessment rate based on the
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's
examined sales and the total entered value of the sales in
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accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\19\ If the respondent's weighted-
average dumping margin or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero
or de minimis in the final results of this review, we intend to
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties.\20\
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\18\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\19\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14,
2012).
\20\ Id., 77 FR at 8103; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by
either of the individually examined respondents for which they did not
know that the merchandise was destined to the United States, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate these entries at the all-others rate if there
is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the
transaction.\21\
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\21\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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For the companies for which this review is rescinded with these
preliminary results, we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties
on all appropriate entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of
antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from
warehouse, for consumption, during the POR in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to issue these rescission
instructions to CBP after the date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register.
The final results of this administrative review shall be the basis
for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise
covered by the final results of this review and for future deposits of
estimated duties, where applicable.\22\ We intend to issue assessment
instructions regarding the individually examined respondents 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).
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\22\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication in the Federal Register of the notice of the final results
of this administrative review for all shipments of subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
date of publication as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1)
the cash deposit rate for the individually examined respondents listed
above will be that established in the final results of this
administrative review, except if the rate is less than 0.50 percent
and, therefore, de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1),
in which case the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for merchandise
exported by companies not covered in this review but covered in a prior
segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be
the company-specific rate published in the completed segment for the
most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this
review, a prior review, or the investigation but the producer is, then
the cash deposit rate will be the rate established in the most recently
completed segment for the producer of the merchandise; (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be
0.98 percent, the all-others rate established in the investigation.\23\
These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect
until further notice.
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\23\ See, e.g., Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate
Products from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 87 FR 40489, 40490 (July 7,
2022).
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing 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 and/or countervailing duties occurred
and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties, and/or an
increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of
countervailing duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
Commerce is issuing and publishing these preliminary results in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR
351.213 and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: May 16, 2025.
Scot Fullerton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Operations.
Appendix
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2025-09246 Filed 5-21-25; 8:45 am]
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