Notice2025-16798
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the Netherlands: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
September 3, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that certain hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled steel) from the Netherlands were sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR) October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 168 (Wednesday, September 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42562-42564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16798]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-421-813]
Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From the Netherlands:
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 finds
that certain hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled steel) from the
Netherlands were sold in the United States at less than normal value
during the period of review (POR) October 1, 2023, through September
30, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results of review.
DATES: Applicable September 3, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Schauer, 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) 482-0410.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On October 3, 2016, Commerce published in the Federal Register an
antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel from the Netherlands.\1\ On
October 1, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register a notice of
opportunity to request an administrative review of the Order for the
POR.\2\ On November 14, 2024, based on a timely request for an
administrative review, Commerce initiated this administrative review of
the Order with respect to one company, Tata Steel Ijmuiden BV.\3\ On
December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain administrative deadlines in
this administrative review by 90 days.\4\ The deadline for the
preliminary results is
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now October 1, 2025. For a complete description of the events that
occurred since the initiation of this review, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.\5\
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\1\ See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia,
Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic
of Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Amended Final Affirmative
Antidumping Determinations for Australia, the Republic of Korea, and
the Republic of Turkey and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 67962
(October 3, 2016) (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 79894, 79895
(October 1, 2024).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 89955, 89959 (November 14, 2024).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain Hot-
Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Netherlands; 2023-2024,'' dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by this Order are hot-rolled steel from the
Netherlands. A full description of the scope of the Order is contained
in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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 normal value in accordance with sections
772 and 773 of the Act, respectively. 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 the appendix 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 margin exists for the period October 1, 2023, through
September 30, 2024:
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Tata Steel Ijmuiden BV..................................... 5.67
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations performed to
interested parties in the preliminary results of this administrative
review within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no
public announcement, within five days after the date of publication of
this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.\6\ Pursuant to 19
CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), we have modified the deadline for interested
parties to submit case briefs to Commerce to no later than 21 days
after the date of the publication of this notice.\7\ 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.\8\ 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.\9\
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\6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for
general filing requirements).
\7\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\8\ 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).
\9\ 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.\10\ 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.
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\10\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
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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.\11\ Parties should confirm the date,
time, and location of the hearing two days before the scheduled hearing
date.
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\11\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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All submissions, including case and rebuttal briefs, as well as
hearing requests, should be filed via ACCESS.\12\ An electronically
filed document must be received successfully in its entirety in ACCESS
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established deadline. 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\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
\13\ See APO and Service Final Rule, 88 FR at 67069.
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Final Results of Review
Unless the deadline is 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,
in accordance with 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 of subject merchandise
covered by this review.\14\ If the 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 for antidumping duties based on the
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's
examined sales and the total entered value of those same sales in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\15\ 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
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intend to instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without
regard to antidumping duties.\16\
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\14\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\15\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14,
2012).
\16\ Id., 77 FR at 8102-03; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the
individually examined respondent for which it 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.\17\
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\17\ 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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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.\18\ Commerce intends to issue
assessment instructions regarding the individually examined respondent
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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\18\ 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 respondent listed
above will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin 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 3.73 percent, the all-others
rate established in the investigation.\19\ These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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\19\ See Order, 81 FR at 67965.
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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 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.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of this
administrative review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: August 27, 2025.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary or 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 the Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2025-16798 Filed 9-2-25; 8:45 am]
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