Notice2025-17684
Silicon Metal From Australia and Norway: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations
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September 12, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 175 (Friday, September 12, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44161-44162]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17684]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-602-813, A-403-806]
Silicon Metal From Australia and Norway: Postponement of
Preliminary Determinations in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable September 12, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacob Waddell at (202) 482-1369
(Australia) or Brittany Bauer at (202) 482-3860 (Norway), AD/CVD
Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations of imports of
silicon metal from Australia and Norway.\1\ Currently, the preliminary
determinations in these LTFV investigations are due to be issued no
later than October 1, 2025.
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\1\ See Silicon Metal from Angola, Australia, the Lao People's
Republic, and Norway: Initiation of Less-than-Fair-Value
Investigations, 90 FR 21741 (May 21, 2025).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations
Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in an
LTFV investigation within 140 days after the date on which Commerce
initiated the investigation. However, section 733(c)(1)(A)(b)(1) of the
Act permits Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination until no
later than 190 days after the date on which Commerce initiated the
investigation if: (A) the petitioner makes a timely request for a
postponement; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties concerned are
cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated, and
that additional time is necessary to make a preliminary determination.
Under 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must submit a request for
postponement 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the
preliminary determination and must state the reasons for the request.
Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling reasons to
deny the request.
Australia
On September 5, 2025, the petitioners \2\ submitted a timely
request that Commerce postpone the preliminary determination in the
LTFV investigation.\3\ The petitioners stated that they request
postponement because Commerce has only recently issued supplemental
questionnaires for Sections A-D to the mandatory respondent in
Australia, and thus, additional time will be necessary to allow
Commerce and the petitioners to fully develop the record.
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\2\ The petitioners are Ferroglobe USA, Inc. and Mississippi
Silicon LLC.
\3\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Petitioners' Request to Postpone
Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determination,'' dated September 5,
2025.
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Norway
On September 5, 2025, the petitioners submitted a timely request
that Commerce postpone the preliminary determination in the LTFV
investigation.\4\ The petitioners stated that they request postponement
because Commerce has not yet issued supplemental questionnaires for
Sections B-E to the mandatory respondent, and the initial response to
Section E of the questionnaire from the mandatory respondent in Norway
has yet to be submitted. Therefore, additional time will be necessary
to allow Commerce and the petitioners to fully develop the record.
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\4\ Id.
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For the reasons stated above and because there are no compelling
reasons to deny the request, Commerce, in accordance with section
733(c)(1)(A) of the Act, is postponing the deadline for the preliminary
determinations by 50 days (i.e., 190 days after the date on which these
investigations were initiated). As a result, Commerce will issue its
preliminary determinations no later than November 20, 2025. In
accordance with section 735(a)(1) of the
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Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the deadline for the final determinations
of these investigations will continue to be 75 days after the date of
the preliminary determinations, unless postponed at a later date.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 733(c)(2)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
Dated: September 9, 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. 2025-17684 Filed 9-11-25; 8:45 am]
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