Notice2025-17527
Silicomanganese From India: Preliminary Results of 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) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on silicomanganese from India for the period of review (POR) May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024. Commerce preliminarily finds that silicomanganese from India was not sold in the United States at prices below normal value during the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 174 (Thursday, September 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44045-44047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17527]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-823]
Silicomanganese From India: 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) is conducting an
administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on
silicomanganese from India for the period of review (POR) May 1, 2023,
through April 30, 2024. Commerce preliminarily finds that
silicomanganese from India was not sold in the United States at prices
below normal value during the POR. Interested parties are invited to
comment on these preliminary results of review.
DATES: Applicable September 11, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene H. Calvert, 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) 482-3586.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 23, 2002, Commerce published in the Federal Register the AD
order on silicomanganese from India.\1\ On May 2, 2024, Commerce
published a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review
of the Order covering the POR.\2\ On July 5, 2024, based on timely
requests for an administrative review, Commerce initiated this
administrative review of the Order with respect to one company, Maithan
Alloys Limited.\3\
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\1\ See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Orders: Silicomanganese from
India, Kazakhstan, and Venezuela, 67 FR 36149 (May 23, 2002)
(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 35778 (May 2,
2024).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 55567 (July 5, 2024).
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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 an
additional 90 days.\5\ On May 7, 2025, Commerce extended the deadline
for the preliminary results of this review by 110 days.\6\ On August
21, 2025, Commerce further extended the deadline for these preliminary
results by 10 days.\7\ Accordingly, the deadline for Commerce to issue
these preliminary results is September 5, 2025. For a complete
description of the events that occurred since the initiation of this
review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\8\
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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 May 7,
2025.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,''
dated August 21, 2025.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of
Silicomanganese from India; 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 all forms, sizes and
compositions of silicomanganese from India, except low- carbon
silicomanganese, including silicomanganese briquettes, fines and slag.
For a full description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a) 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 public 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 May 1, 2023, through April
30, 2024:
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Weighted-average
Producer/exporter dumping margin
(percent)
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Maithan Alloys Limited.............................. * 0.48
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* De minimis.
Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations performed in the
preliminary results of this administrative review to interested parties
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.\9\ 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.\10\ 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.\11\ 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.\12\
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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.
\11\ 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).
\12\ 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 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.\13\ 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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\13\ 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.\14\ Parties should confirm the date,
time, and location of the hearing two days before the scheduled hearing
date.
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\14\ 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.\15\ 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).\16\
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\15\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
\16\ 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 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.\17\ If the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is
above de minimis (i.e., above 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).\18\ 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 intend to instruct CBP to liquidate
the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.\19\
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\17\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\18\ 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).
\19\ 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 for 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.
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.\20\ 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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\20\ 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 17.74 percent, the all-
others rate established in the underlying less-than-fair value
investigation.\21\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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\21\ See Order, 67 FR at 36150-35151.
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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 the preliminary results of this
administrative review in accordance
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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. Affiliation and Collapsing
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation
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