Notice2025-15383
Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet From South Africa: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
August 13, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that common alloy aluminum sheet (aluminum sheet) from South Africa was not sold in the United States at below normal value during the period of review (POR), April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 13, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38950-38952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15383]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-791-825]
Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet From South Africa: Preliminary
Results 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) preliminarily
determines that common alloy aluminum sheet (aluminum sheet) from South
Africa was not sold in the United States at below normal value during
the period of review (POR), April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024. We
invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable August 13, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurel LaCivita, 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) 482-4243.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On April 27, 2021, Commerce published the antidumping duty order on
aluminum sheet from South Africa in the Federal Register.\1\ On April
1, 2024, we published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity
to request an administrative review of the Order.\2\ On June 12, 2024,
pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act), Commerce initiated an administrative review of the Order on
aluminum sheet from South Africa covering Hulamin Operations (Pty) Ltd.
(Hulamin Operations).\3\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline
for the preliminary results by seven days.\4\ On December 9, 2024,
Commerce tolled the deadline for the preliminary results for an
additional 90 days.\5\ On March 28, 2025, May 9, 2025, and June 12,
2025, Commerce extended the time period for issuing the preliminary
results of this review until August 5, 2025.\6\
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\1\ See Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet from Bahrain, Brazil,
Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Oman, Romania,
Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan and the Republic of
Turkey: Antidumping Duty Orders, 86 FR 22139 (April 27, 2021)
(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 22390 (April 1,
2024).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 49844 (June 12, 2024).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated March 28,
2025; see also Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,''
dated May 9, 2026; and Memorandum, ``Third Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,''
dated June 12, 2025.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\7\
A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
included in the appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 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 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>.
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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet from South Africa; 2023-2024,'' dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise under review is common alloy aluminum sheet from
South Africa. For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. Constructed export price was calculated in
accordance with section 772 of the Act. Normal value was calculated in
accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the
methodology underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the
following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the
period April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024:
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Hulamin Operations (Pty) Ltd.............................. 0.00
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties within
five days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal
Register.\8\
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\8\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.\9\ Pursuant to 19
CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), we have modified the deadline for interested
parties to submit case briefs to Commerce no later than 21 days after
the date of the publication of this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to
issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed no later than five days
after the date for filing case briefs.\10\ Interested parties who
submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit:
(1) a table of contents listing each issue; and, (2) a table of
authorities.\11\
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\9\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for
general filing requirements).
\10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); 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 Procedures).
\11\ 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
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proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an
executive summary of their briefs that should be limited to five pages
total, including footnotes. In this 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.\12\ 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 in 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).\13\
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\12\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\13\ See APO and Service Procedures.
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Interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, using Enforcement and
Compliance's ACCESS system within 30 days of publication of this
notice.\14\ Requests should contain the party's name, address, and
telephone number, the number of participants, and a list of the issues
to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those
raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. If a request for a hearing is
made, we will inform parties of the scheduled date for the hearing at a
time and location to be determined.\15\ Parties should confirm by
telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing no fewer than two
days before the scheduled date. Parties are reminded that all briefs
and hearing requests must be filed electronically using ACCESS and
received successfully in their entirety by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
the due date.
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\14\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
\15\ See 19 CFR 351.310.
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Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), Commerce will issue the final results
of this administrative review, including the results of our analysis of
the issues raised by the parties in their case briefs, not later than
120 days after the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, Commerce shall determine, and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review. 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).
If the weighted-average dumping margin for Hulamin Operations is
above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of this
review, we will calculate importer-specific ad valorem antidumping duty
assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping
calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total entered value
of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\16\ If the
respondent has not reported entered values, we will calculate 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. We will instruct CBP to
assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this
review when the importer-specific assessment rate calculated in the
final results of this review is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent).
Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero
or de minimis, or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de
minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries
without regard to antidumping duties. The final results of this 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.\17\
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\16\ In these preliminary results, Commerce applied the
assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping
Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
\17\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice,
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the
respondent for which it did not know that the merchandise was destined
for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those entries
at the all-others rate established in the original less-than-fair value
(LTFV) investigation (i.e., 8.85 percent) \18\ if there is no rate for
the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
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\18\ See Order, 86 FR at 22142.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of the final results of the administrative
review for all shipments of common alloy aluminum sheet from South
Africa entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after the date of publication of the final results, as provided by
section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate Hulamin
Operations will be equal to the dumping margin established in the final
results of this review, except if the ultimate rate is 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 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 in which the producer or exporter
participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review,
a prior review, or the original LTFV investigation but the producer is,
then the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most
recently completed segment of the proceeding for the producer of the
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or
exporters will continue to be 8.85 percent, the all-others rate
established in the antidumping duty investigation.\19\ These cash
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until
further notice.
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\19\ Id.
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Notification to Importers
This notice also 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 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.
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Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), and
19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: August 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.
Appendix
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2025-15383 Filed 8-12-25; 8:45 am]
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