Notice2025-17462
Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
September 11, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Wuyi Xilinde Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd. (Wuyi Xilinde) made sales of non-refillable steel cylinders (non-refillable cylinders) from the People's Republic of China (China) at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024. Additionally, Commerce intends to rescind the review, in part, with respect to three companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results of this review.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 174 (Thursday, September 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44026-44029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17462]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-126]
Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders From the People's Republic of
China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of the 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 Wuyi Xilinde Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd. (Wuyi
Xilinde) made sales of non-refillable steel cylinders (non-refillable
cylinders)
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from the People's Republic of China (China) at less than normal value
(NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2023, through April 30,
2024. Additionally, Commerce intends to rescind the review, in part,
with respect to three companies. Interested parties are invited to
comment on the preliminary results of this review.
DATES: Applicable September 11, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Palmer, 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) 482-1678.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 11, 2021, Commerce published the Order on non-refillable
cylinders from China.\1\ On July 5, 2024, pursuant to timely requests
for review, Commerce published the notice of initiation of the third
administrative review of the Order.\2\ Commerce initiated this
administrative review covering the following four exporters of subject
merchandise: Ningbo Eagle Machinery & Technology Co., Ltd. (Ningbo
Eagle); Sanjiang Kai Yuan Co., Ltd. (Sanjiang Kai Yuan); Wuyi Xilinde
Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd. (Wuyi Xilinde); and Zhejiang Kin-Shine
Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhejiang Kin-Shine).\3\
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\1\ See Certain Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders from the People's
Republic of China: Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination and
Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders, 86 FR 25839 (May
11, 2021) (Order).
\2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 55567 (July 5, 2024) (Initiation
Notice).
\3\ Id., 89 FR 55574.
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On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this
administrative proceeding by seven days.\4\ On December 9, 2024,
Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative review by 90
days.\5\ On April 22, 2025, Commerce extended the deadline for issuing
the preliminary results of this administrative review by 61 days.\6\ On
June 11, 2025, Commerce issued a second extension of the preliminary
deadline by 59 days.\7\ Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary
results of review is now September 5, 2025.
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\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 April 22,
2025.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,''
dated June 11, 2025.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this administrative review, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.\8\ A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is included as an 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 found at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
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\8\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Non-
Refillable Steel Cylinders from the People's Republic of China,
2023-2024,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this
notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by this Order is certain seamed (welded or
brazed), non-refillable steel cylinders meeting the requirements of, or
produced to meet the requirements of, U.S. Department of Transportation
(USDOT) Specification 39, TransportCanada Specification 39M, or United
Nations pressure receptacle standard ISO 11118. A full description of
the scope of the Order is provided in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.\9\
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\9\ Id.
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Partial Rescission of Review
As noted above, we initiated this review with respect to four
companies.\10\ During the course of the review, we selected one
mandatory respondent, i.e., Wuyi Xilinde. Consequently, there are three
companies upon which a review was requested, and which were not
selected for individual examination.
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\10\ See Initiation Notice.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an
administrative review when there are no reviewable suspended entries.
Based on our analysis of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
information, the three remaining companies listed in the Initiation
Notice (i.e., Ningbo Eagle, Sanjiang Kai Yuan, and Zhejiang Kin-Shin)
had no entries of subject merchandise during the POR.\11\
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\11\ Id., 89 FR at 55574; see also Memorandum, ``Release of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Data and Notice of Intent to Rescind
Review, in Part,'' dated July 12, 2024 (CBP Data Memorandum).
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On July 12, 2024, Commerce notified interested parties of its
intent to rescind the review with respect to the companies which had no
reviewable suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR.\12\
Additionally, Sanjiang Kai Yuan notified Commerce that it made no
shipments of the subject merchandise to the United States during the
POR.\13\ No parties commented on our intent to rescind.\14\ As such,
Commerce is rescinding this review with respect to Ningbo Eagle,
Sanjiang Kai Yuan, and Zhejiang Kin-Shine in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(d)(3).
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\12\ See CBP Data Memorandum.
\13\ See Sanjiang Kai Yuan's No Shipment Certification.
\14\ See CBP Data Memorandum.
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The China-Wide Entity
Under Commerce's policy regarding the conditional review of the
China-wide entity,\15\ the China-wide entity will not be under review
unless a party specifically requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a
review of the entity. Because no party requested a review of the China-
wide entity in this review, the entity is not under review, and the
entity's rate (i.e., 112.21 percent) is not subject to change.
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\15\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013).
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance
with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act). We calculated export prices in accordance with section 772 of the
Act. Because Commerce has determined that China is a non-market economy
country within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, Commerce
calculated NV in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. For a full
description of the methodology underlying the preliminary results of
this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted-
average dumping margin exists for the period May 1, 2023, through April
30, 2024:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter dumping
margin
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Wuyi Xilinde Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd................ 71.89
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in
connection with these preliminary results to interested parties within
five days of any public announcement, or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this
notice in the Federal Register in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Verification
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.307(b)(1)(iv) and (v), Commerce intends to
verify the information submitted by Wuyi Xilinde prior to issuing the
final results of this review.
Public Comment
Upon completion of verification and issuance of the verification
report, Commerce will notify parties of the schedule for submitting
case briefs or other written comments regarding the preliminary results
and verification findings for consideration in the final results of
review.\16\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in case briefs,
may be submitted no later than five days after the deadline for case
briefs.\17\ Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), parties who
submit case or rebuttal briefs in this review are encouraged to submit
with each argument: (1) a statement of the issue; (2) a brief summary
of the argument; and (3) a table of authorities.
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\16\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
\17\ 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 Final Rule).
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As provided to 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.\18\ Further, we request that interested parties limit their
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. Case
and rebuttal briefs should be filed using ACCESS.\19\ Note that
Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\20\
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\18\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\19\ See, generally, 19 CFR 351.303.
\20\ 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, filed
electronically via Commerce's electric records system, ACCESS. An
electronically-filed request must be received successfully in its
entirety by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice.\21\ Requests should contain the party's
name, address, and telephone number, the number of participants,
whether any participant is a foreign national, and a list of the issues
to be discussed. If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce intends
to hold the hearing at a time and date to be determined.\22\ Parties
should confirm by telephone the date and time of the hearing two days
before the scheduled date.
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\21\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
\22\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Unless otherwise extended, we intend to issue the final results of
this administrative review, which will include the results of our
analysis of the issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs, within
120 days of publication of these preliminary results in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(h).
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, Commerce will determine, and
CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered
by this review, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Commerce
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days
after the 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).
We will calculate importer/customer-specific assessment rates equal
to the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for examined
sales to a particular importer/customer to the total entered value of
those sales, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\23\ Where the
respondent reported reliable entered values, Commerce intends to
calculate importer/customer-specific ad valorem assessment rates by
dividing the total amount of dumping calculated for all reviewed U.S.
sales to the importer/customer by the total entered value of the
merchandise sold to the importer/customer.\24\ Where the respondents
did not report entered values, Commerce will calculate importer/
customer-specific assessment rates by dividing the total amount of
dumping calculated for all reviewed U.S. sales to the importer/customer
by the total quantity of those sales. Commerce will calculate an
estimated ad valorem importer/customer-specific assessment rate to
determine whether the per-unit assessment rate is de minimis; however,
Commerce will use the per-unit assessment rate where entered values
were not reported.\25\ Where an importer/customer-specific ad valorem
assessment rate is not zero or de minimis, Commerce will instruct CBP
to collect the appropriate duties at the time of liquidation. Where
either the respondents' ad valorem weighted-average dumping margin is
zero or de minimis, or an importer/customer-specific ad valorem
assessment rate is zero or de minimis,\26\ Commerce will instruct CBP
to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping
duties.
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\23\ 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).
\24\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\25\ Id.
\26\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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Pursuant to a refinement to Commerce's assessment practice, for
sales that were not reported in the U.S. sales database submitted by a
respondent individually examined during this review, Commerce will
instruct CBP to liquidate the entry of such merchandise at the dumping
assessment rate assigned to the China-wide entity.\27\
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\27\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market
Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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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
estimated 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)(l)(i). For the companies rescinded
from review, Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP
35 days after the publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, 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 antidumping
duties, where applicable.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the final results of this review for all shipments of
the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the
notice of the final results of administrative review in the Federal
Register, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for
the companies that have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be
that rate established in the final results of this review (except, if
the rate is de minimis, then a cash deposit rate of zero will be
required); (2) for previously investigated or reviewed Chinese and non-
Chinese exporters for which a review was not requested and that
received a separate rate in a prior segment of this proceeding, the
cash deposit rate will continue to be the existing exporter-specific
rate; (3) for all Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have
not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate
will be the rate for the China-wide entity (i.e., 112.21 percent); and
(4) for all non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have not
received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate
applicable to the Chinese exporter that supplied that non-Chinese
exporter. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain
in effect until further notice.
Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review, which will include the results
of its analysis of issues raised in case and rebuttal briefs, within
120 days of these preliminary results of review in the Federal
Register, pursuant to 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
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 and/or countervailing 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 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 the countervailing duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(4).
Dated: September 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. Partial Recission of Administrative Review
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation
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