Notice2025-16605
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Mexico: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
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August 29, 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 Mexico are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 166 (Friday, August 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42187-42189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16605]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-201-863]
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Mexico: Final
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Mexico are
being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair
value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is July 1, 2023,
through June 30, 2024.
DATES: Applicable August 29, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Smith or Katerina Katsiadas, AD/
CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1766 or (202)
482-4929, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On April 10, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register its
preliminary affirmative determination in the LTFV investigation of CORE
from Mexico, in which we also postponed the final determination to
August 25, 2025, and invited interested parties to comment on the
Preliminary Determination.\1\ On July 18, 2025, Commerce issued a post-
preliminary analysis memorandum in which we made certain changes to our
differential pricing analysis.\2\ We invited interested parties to
comment on the Post-Preliminary Analysis.\3\
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\1\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Mexico:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of
Provisional Measures, 90 FR 15349 (April 10, 2025) (Preliminary
Determination), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum
(PDM).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Post-Preliminary Analysis for the
Affirmative Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,'' dated
July 18, 2025 (Post-Preliminary Analysis).
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Briefing Schedule,'' dated July 21, 2025.
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A summary of the events that occurred since Commerce published the
Preliminary Determination, as well as a full discussion of the issues
raised by parties for this final determination, may be found in the
Issues and Decision Memorandum.\4\ 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>.
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value in
the Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from
Mexico,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this
notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this investigation is CORE from Mexico. For
a full description of the scope of this investigation, see Appendix I.
Scope Comments
In the Preliminary Scope Memorandum, we set aside a period of time
for parties to raise issues regarding product coverage (i.e., scope) in
scope-specific case briefs or other written comments.\5\ We received
scope case and rebuttal briefs from multiple interested parties. For a
summary of the product coverage comments and rebuttal responses
submitted to the record for this final determination, and accompanying
discussion and analysis of all comments timely received, see the Final
Scope Memorandum.\6\ In the Final Scope Memorandum, Commerce made no
changes to the scope language as it appeared in the Initiation
Notice.\7\ See Appendix I.
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\5\ See Memorandum, ``Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations of
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Australia, Brazil,
Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, the Republic
of T[uuml]rkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam, and Countervailing Duty Investigations of
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil, Canada,
Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Scope
Decision Memorandum,'' dated April 3, 2025 (Preliminary Scope
Memorandum).
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations of
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Australia, Brazil,
Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, the Republic
of T[uuml]rkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam, and Countervailing Duty Investigations of
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil, Canada,
Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Scope Decision
Memorandum,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Final Scope
Memorandum).
\7\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil,
Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of
Countervailing Duty Investigations, 89 FR 80204 (October 2, 2024)
(Initiation Notice).
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Verification
As provided in section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act), in April and May 2025, we conducted verification of the
sales and cost information submitted by Ternium Mexico S.A. de C.V.
(Ternium)/Tenigal, S.de R.L. de C.V. (Tenigal) (collectively, Ternium/
Tenigal) and Galvasid S.A. de C.V. (Galvasid)/Perfiles LM, S.A. de C.V.
(Perfiles) (collectively, Galvasid/Perfiles) for use in our final
determination.\8\ We used standard verification procedures, including
an examination of relevant sales and accounting records, and original
source documents provided by Ternium/Tenigal and Galvasid/Perfiles.
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\8\ See Memoranda, ``U.S. Verification of the Sales Response of
Ternium USA, Inc. in the Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain
Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,'' dated July 10,
2025; ``Verification of the Sales Response of Ternium Mexico S.A. de
C.V. in the Antidumping Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant
Steel Products from Mexico,'' dated July 18, 2025; ``Verification of
the Cost Response of Ternium Mexico, S.A. de C.V. in the Less-Than-
Fair-Value Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel
Products from Mexico,'' dated June 23, 2025; ``Verification of the
Sales Response of Galvasid S.A. de C.V. in the Antidumping
Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from
Mexico,'' dated July 11, 2025; and ``Less-Than-Fair-Value
Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from
Mexico,'' dated May 12, 2025.
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Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in case and rebuttal briefs submitted by
interested parties in this investigation are addressed in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum is attached to this notice at Appendix II.
Changes Since the Preliminary Determination
Based on our analysis of the comments received and our findings at
verification, we made certain changes to Galvasid/Perfiles' and
Ternium/Tenigal's margin calculations. For a discussion of these
changes, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
All-Others Rate
Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provides that the estimated
weighted-average dumping margin for all other producers and exporters
not individually investigated shall be an amount equal to the weighted-
average of the estimated weighted-average
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dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually
investigated excluding rates that are zero, de minimis, or determined
entirely under section 776 of the Act, i.e., facts otherwise available.
Therefore, we calculated the all-others rate based on a weighted
average of the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory respondents
using each company's publicly ranged values for the merchandise under
consideration.\9\
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\9\ We followed our normal practice, which is, with two
respondents, we calculate (A) a weighted-average of the dumping
margins calculated for the mandatory respondents; (B) a simple
average of the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory
respondents; and (C) a weighted-average of the dumping margins
calculated for the mandatory respondents using each company's
publicly-ranged values for the merchandise under consideration. We
then compare (B) and (C) to (A) and select the rate closest to (A)
as the most appropriate rate for all other companies. See Ball
Bearings and Parts Thereof From France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and
the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Reviews, Final Results of Changed-Circumstances Review, and
Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663 (September 1,
2010).
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Final Determination
Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average
dumping margins exist:
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Weighted-average Cash deposit rate
Producer or exporter dumping margin (adjusted for subsidy
(percent) offset(s)) (percent)
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Galvasid S.A. de C.V./Perfiles LM, S.A. de C.V................ 24.05 \10\ 24.05
Ternium Mexico S.A. de C.V./Tenigal, S.de R.L. de C.V......... 14.17 \11\ 1.07
All Others.................................................... 17.40 4.30
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Disclosure
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\10\ See the unpublished companion CVD final determination,
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico: Final
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, dated concurrently
with this memorandum.
\11\ Id.
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Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in
connection with this final determination to interested parties within
five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the publication of the notice in the
Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, Commerce will
instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue to
suspend liquidation of all appropriate entries of subject merchandise,
as described in Appendix I of this notice, which were entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after April 10, 2025,
the date of publication of the Preliminary Determination in the Federal
Register.
Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.210(d), where appropriate, Commerce will instruct CBP to require a
cash deposit equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margin or
the estimated all-others rate, as follows: (1) the cash deposit rate
for the respondents listed above will be equal to the company-specific
estimated weighted-average dumping margin determined in this final
determination; (2) if the exporter is not a company identified above
but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate will be equal to the
company-specific estimated weighted-average dumping margin established
for that producer of the subject merchandise; and (3) the cash deposit
rate for all other producers and exporters will be equal to the all-
others estimated weighted-average dumping margin. These suspension of
liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice.
To determine the cash deposit rate, Commerce normally adjusts the
estimated weighted-average dumping margin by the amount of export
subsidies countervailed in a companion CVD proceeding, when CVD
provisional measures are in effect. Accordingly, where Commerce has
made a final affirmative determination for countervailable export
subsidies, Commerce offsets the estimated weighted-average dumping
margin by the appropriate CVD rate. Commerce would adjust the cash
deposit rate for export subsidies in the companion CVD investigation by
the appropriate export subsidy rate; however, suspension of liquidation
of provisional measures in the companion CVD proceeding has been
discontinued.\12\ Therefore, we are not instructing CBP to collect cash
deposits based upon the adjusted estimated weighted-average dumping
margin for those export subsidies at this time. If the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC) makes a final affirmative
determination of injury due to both dumping and subsidies, then the
cash deposit rate will be revised effective on the date of the
publication of the ITC's final affirmative determination in the Federal
Register to be the company-specific estimated weighted-average dumping
margin adjusted for export subsidies.
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\12\ See section 703(d) of the Act, which states that the
provisional measures may not be in effect for more than four months,
which in the companion CVD case is 120 days after the publication of
the preliminary determination, or June 9, 2025 (i.e., the last day
provisional measures are in effect).
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U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Notification
In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, Commerce will notify
the ITC of the final affirmative determination of sales at LTFV.
Because Commerce's final determination is affirmative, in accordance
with section 735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will make its final
determination as to whether the domestic industry in the United States
is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by reason of
imports or sales (or the likelihood of sales) by reason of importation
of CORE from Mexico, no later than 45 days after this final
determination. If the ITC determines that such injury does not exist,
this proceeding will be terminated, and all cash deposits posted will
be refunded and suspension of liquidation will be lifted. If the ITC
determines that such injury does exist, Commerce will issue an
antidumping duty order directing CBP to assess, upon further
instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties on all imports of the
subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the effective date of the suspension of
liquidation, as discussed above in the ``Continuation of Suspension of
Liquidation'' section. In addition, we are making available to the ITC
all non-privileged and non-proprietary information in our files,
provided the ITC confirms that it will not disclose such information,
either publicly or under administrative protective order (APO), without
the written consent of the Assistant
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Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Administrative Protective Order (APO)
This notice will serve as a final reminder to parties subject to an
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 or 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
This determination is issued and published in accordance with
sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.210(c).
Dated: August 25, 2025.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation are certain flat-
rolled steel products, either clad, plated, or coated with
corrosion-resistant metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-,
aluminum-, nickel- or iron-based alloys, whether or not corrugated
or painted, varnished, laminated, or coated with plastics or other
non-metallic substances in addition to the metallic coating. The
products covered include coils that have a width of 12.7 mm or
greater, regardless of form of coil (e.g., in successively
superimposed layers, spirally oscillating, etc.). The products
covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in straight
lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and a width that is 12.7
mm or greater and that measures at least 10 times the thickness. The
products covered also include products not in coils (e.g., in
straight lengths) of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more and a width
exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least twice the thickness. The
products described above may be rectangular, square, circular, or
other shape and include products of either rectangular or non-
rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved
subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., products which have been
``worked after rolling'' (e.g., products which have been beveled or
rounded at the edges).
For purposes of the width and thickness requirements referenced
above:
(1) Where the nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is
within the scope if application of either the nominal or actual
measurement would place it within the scope based on the definitions
set forth above, and
(2) where the width and thickness vary for a specific product
(e.g., the thickness of certain products with non-rectangular cross-
section, the width of certain products with non-rectangular shape,
etc.), the measurement at its greatest width or thickness applies.
Steel products included in the scope of this investigation are
products in which: (1) iron predominates, by weight, over each of
the other contained elements; and (2) the carbon content is 2
percent or less, by weight.
Subject merchandise also includes corrosion-resistant steel that
has been further processed in a third country, including but not
limited to annealing, tempering, painting, varnishing, trimming,
cutting, punching and/or slitting or any other processing that would
not otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope of the
investigation if performed in the country of manufacture of the in-
scope corrosion resistant steel.
All products that meet the written physical description are
within the scope of this investigation unless specifically excluded.
The following products are outside of and/or specifically excluded
from the scope of this investigation:
<bullet> Flat-rolled steel products either plated or coated with
tin, lead, chromium, chromium oxides, both tin and lead (``terne
plate'') or both chromium and chromium oxides (``tin free steel''),
whether or not painted, varnished or coated with plastics or other
nonmetallic substances in addition to the metallic coating;
<bullet> Clad products in straight lengths of 4.7625 mm or more
in composite thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 mm and
measures at least twice the thickness;
<bullet> Certain clad stainless flat-rolled products, which are
three-layered corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat-rolled products
less than 4.75 mm in composite thickness that consist of a carbon
steel flat-rolled product clad on both sides with stainless steel in
a 20%-60%-20% ratio.
The products subject to this investigation are currently
classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) under item numbers: 7210.30.0030, 7210.30.0060,
7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0040, 7210.49.0045,
7210.49.0091, 7210.49.0095, 7210.61.0000, 7210.69.0000,
7210.70.6030, 7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 7210.90.6000,
7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000, 7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090,
7212.30.3000, 7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,
7212.50.0000, 7212.60.0000, 7225.91.0000, 7225.92.0000,
7226.99.0110, and 7226.99.0130.
The products subject to this investigation may also enter under
the following HTSUS item numbers: 7210.90.1000, 7215.90.1000,
7215.90.3000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500, 7217.30.1530,
7217.30.1560, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060,
7217.90.5090, 7225.99.0090, 7226.99.0180, 7228.60.6000,
7228.60.8000, and 7229.90.1000.
The HTSUS subheadings above are provided for convenience and
customs purposes only. The written description of the scope of this
investigation is dispositive.
Appendix II
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Changes Since the Preliminary Determination
IV. Application of Facts Available and Use of Adverse Inferences
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Use of Zeroing
Comment 2: Flaws in Applying the New Differential Price Test
Comment 3: Use of Average-to-Average Method
Comment 4: Use of Facts Otherwise Available With An Adverse
Inference
Comment 5: Multiple Costs Reported for the Same Control Number
Comment 6: Adjusting Cost of Manufacture for Unreconciled or
Unexplained Differences
Comment 7: Adjusting Affiliated Purchase Prices to Reflect
Actual Market Prices
Comment 8: Treatment of Certain Excluded Expenses
Comment 9: U.S. Warehousing Expenses, Home Market and U.S.
Freight Expenses, and Home Market Credit Expenses (Calculated Using
Average Payment Dates)
Comment 10: Cash Deposit Instructions
Comment 11: U.S. and Home Market Royalty Expenses and U.S.
Insurance Expenses
Comment 12: U.S. Freight and Insurance Revenue
Comment 13: U.S. Warranty Expenses
VI. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2025-16605 Filed 8-28-25; 8:45 am]
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