Notice2025-17128
Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Mexico: Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
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Published
September 8, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on heavy-walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes (HWR) from Mexico. This notice amends the cash deposit rate for Maquilacero S.A. de C.V. (Maquilacero). The period of review (POR) is September 01, 2022, through August 31, 2023.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 171 (Monday, September 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43173-43174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-201-847]
Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From
Mexico: Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2022-2023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the
final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty
order on heavy-walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes
(HWR) from Mexico. This notice amends the cash deposit rate for
Maquilacero S.A. de C.V. (Maquilacero). The period of review (POR) is
September 01, 2022, through August 31, 2023.
DATES: Applicable September 8, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katie Smith, AD/CVD Operations, Office
II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0557.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 24, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
Final Results of the 2022-2023 administrative review \1\ of the
antidumping duty order on HWR from Mexico.\2\ On August 1, 2025,
Commerce received a timely filed allegation from Maquilacero with
regard to its final weighted-average dumping margin.\3\ No other
interested party submitted comments. Commerce is amending the Final
Results to correct these ministerial errors.
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\1\ See Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and
Tubes from Mexico: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2022-2023, 90 FR 34842 (July 24, 2025) (Final Results), and
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM).
\2\ See Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and
Tubes from the Republic of Korea, Mexico, and the Republic of
Turkey: Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 62865 (September 13, 2016)
(Order).
\3\ See Maquilacero's Letter, ``Ministerial Error Comments for
the Final Results,'' dated August 1, 2025.
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Legal Framework
Section 751(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
defines a ``ministerial error'' as including ``errors in addition,
subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical errors resulting
from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any other
unintentional error which the administering authority considers
ministerial.'' \4\ With respect to final results of administrative
reviews, 19 CFR 351.224(e) provides that Commerce ``will analyze any
comments received and, if appropriate, correct any . . . ministerial
error by amending the final results of review . . . {.{time} ''
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\4\ See 19 CFR 351.224(f).
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Ministerial Error
Commerce reviewed the record and finds that errors alleged by
Maquilacero constitute a ministerial error within the meaning of
section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f).\5\ Specifically, we
find that the programming error present in Maquilacero's final margin
calculation which excluded certain U.S. sales in our analysis, was an
inadvertent error which we consider ministerial. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.224(e), Commerce is amending the Final Results to reflect the
correction of the ministerial error. Based on the correction,
Maquilacero's final weighted-average dumping margin changed from 7.77
percent to 7.02 percent.
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\5\ See Memorandum, ``Analysis of Ministerial Error
Allegations,'' dated August 22, 2025 (Ministerial Error Memorandum).
In this memorandum, Commerce inadvertently stated that after making
the corrections, Maquilacero's calculated weighted-average dumping
margin did not change from the Final Results.
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For a complete discussion of the ministerial error allegation, as
well as Commerce's analysis, see the Ministerial Error Memorandum. The
Ministerial Error Memorandum is on file electronically via ACCESS.
ACCESS is available to registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>.
Amended Final Results of Review
As a result of correcting the ministerial error, Commerce
determines
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that the estimated weighted-average dumping margin of 7.02 percent
exists for Maquilacero for the period of September 1, 2022, through
August 31, 2023.
Disclosure
On August 22, 2025, Commerce disclosed Maquilacero's revised
calculations.\6\ Thus, there are no additional details or calculations
to disclose for these amended final results.
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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Amended Final Results Margin Calculation
for Maquilacero S.A. de C.V.,'' dated August 22, 2025.
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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 amended final
results of this review. The amended final results of this review shall
be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of
merchandise covered by the amended final results of this review and for
future deposits of estimated duties, where applicable.\7\
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\7\ 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 of those sales. 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 assessment rate is de
minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), we will instruct CBP to
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by
Maquilacero for which it did not know that its merchandise was destined
for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries
at the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV)
investigation of 4.91 percent ad valorem,\8\ if there is no rate for
the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
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\8\ See Order, 81 FR at 62867.
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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
For Maquilacero, the firm for which Commerce is amending the cash
deposit rate, antidumping duties shall be assessed at a rate equal to
the cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties required at the time
of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). The cash deposit requirements, when
imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice 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 review period. Failure to comply
with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that
reimbursement of the antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order (APO)
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to APO of
their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of
proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR
351.305(a)(3). Timely written notification of the 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 violation which is subject to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these amended final results of
administrative review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.224(e).
Dated: September 3, 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.
[FR Doc. 2025-17128 Filed 9-5-25; 8:45 am]
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