Notice2025-17906
Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Italy: Final Results and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
September 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that producers/exporters of certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate (CTL Plate) from Italy made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44633-44635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17906]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-475-834]
Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From Italy:
Final Results and Final Partial Rescission 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) determines that
producers/exporters of certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length
plate (CTL Plate) from Italy made sales of subject merchandise at less
than normal value during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2023,
through April 30, 2024.
DATES: Applicable September 16, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carter Sherwin, 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) 482-4260.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 15, 2025, Commerce published the Preliminary Results in the
Federal Register.\1\ We invited interested parties to comment on the
Preliminary Results.\2\ On July 23, 2025, Commerce published a Post-
Preliminary Analysis that made changes to the differential pricing
analysis method used in the Preliminary Results.\3\ We invited
interested parties to comment on the Post-Preliminary Analysis.\4\ For
a complete description of the events that occurred since the
Preliminary Results and Post-Preliminary Results, see the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.\5\ A full discussion of the issues raised by
parties for these final results are discussed in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.\6\ The Issues and 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 Issues and
Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
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\1\ See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from
Italy: Preliminary Results and Intent to Rescind, in part, of the
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024, 90 FR 20622 (May
15, 2025) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary
Decision Memorandum (PDM).
\2\ See Preliminary Results.
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Post-Preliminary Analysis,'' dated July
23, 2025 (Post-Preliminary Analysis).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Briefing Schedule for Post-Preliminary
Results,'' dated July 29, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of
Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from Italy; 2023-
2024,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice
(Issues and Decision Memorandum).
\6\ Id.
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Scope of the Order <SUP>7</SUP>
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\7\ See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from
Austria, Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy,
Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative
Antidumping Determinations for France, the Federal Republic of
Germany, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty
Orders, 82 FR 24096, 24098 (May 25, 2017) (Order).
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The products covered by the Order are CTL Plate from Italy. A
complete description of the scope of the Order is contained in the
Issues and Decision Memorandum.
Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in case and rebuttal briefs by interested parties
in this administrative review are addressed in the Issues and Decision
Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed in the Issues and Decision
Memorandum is attached to this notice as an Appendix to this notice.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results and Post-Preliminary Analysis
Based on a review of the record and comments received from
interested parties regarding the Preliminary Results and Post-
Preliminary Analysis,
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we made certain changes to the weighted-average dumping margin
calculations for the mandatory respondents, NLMK Verona S.p.A (NVR) and
Metinvest Trametal SpA (MTS) for the final results of review. For a
discussion of these changes, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
Final Rescission of Review, in Part
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to
rescind an administrative review of an AD order when there are no
reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which
liquidation is suspended.\8\ Normally, upon completion of an
administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the AD
assessment rate calculated for the review period.\9\ Therefore, for an
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable,
suspended entry that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the AD assessment rate calculated for
the review period.\10\
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\8\ See, e.g., Dioctyl Terephthalate from the Republic of Korea:
Rescission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2021-2022, 88 FR
24758 (April 24, 2023); see also Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-
to-Length Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Recission of
Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 4154 (January
24, 2023).
\9\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\10\ See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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On May 15, 2025, we issued our intent to rescind, in part, this
administrative review for the following two companies: (1) F.A.R.
Fonderie Acciaerie S.p.A; and (2) Officine Tecnosider.\11\ The POR
entry totals reflected in the Attachment of the CBP Data Memorandum
reflected no POR entries of subject merchandise from these
companies.\12\ We invited parties to comment, and we received no
comments. Accordingly, in the absence of suspended entries of subject
merchandise during the POR, we are hereby rescinding this
administrative review for these two companies, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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\11\ See Preliminary Results, 90 FR at 20622, and accompanying
PDM.
\12\ See Memorandum, ``Release of Customs and Border Protection
Data,'' dated July 25, 2024.
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Final Results of Administrative Review
As a result of this review, we determine the following weighted-
average dumping margins exist 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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NLMK Verona S.p.A........................................... 7.91
Metinvest Trametal SpA; Ferriera Valsider S.p.A \13\........ 5.51
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Disclosure
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\13\ In the Preliminary Results, Commerce preliminarily
determined that Metinvest Trametal S.p.A and Ferriera Valsider S.p.A
are a single entity. See Preliminary Results PDM at 8; see also
Memorandum, ``Preliminary Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for
Metinvest Trametal S.p.A.,'' dated May 8, 2025. No parties commented
on this determination; thus, we continue to treat these companies as
a single entity for the purposes of these final results.
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Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in
connection with these final results of review to interested parties
within five days after public announcement of the final results or, if
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of
publication of the notice of final results in the Federal Register, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, and CBP shall assess,
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in
accordance with the final results of this review.
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 NVR
and MTS 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 6.08 percent ad valorem,\14\ if there is no rate for
the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
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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
Upon publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the
following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all shipments
of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of
this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2) of the
Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the company subject to this review
will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in
these finals results of the review; (2) for merchandise exported by
producers or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a
prior completed segment of the 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 LTFV investigation, but
the producer has been covered in a prior completed segment of this
proceeding, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate established in
the completed segment for the most recent period for the producer of
the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers
or exporters will continue to be 6.08 percent, the all-others rate
established in the LTFV investigation for this proceeding.\15\ These
cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until
further notice.
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\15\ Id.
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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 antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order
This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to an
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administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information
disclosed under the APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of
the proceeding. 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 the terms of an
APO is a violation which is subject to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: September 12, 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 Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Which Total Cost of Manufacturing Field Should be
Used for NVR
Comment 2: Whether to Utilize Cohen's D Test and Whether to
Apply Zeroing to All Sales Comparisons
Comment 3: Whether to Base MTS' Margin on Adverse Facts
Available
Comment 4: Whether to Grant MTS' Commissions Paid to Affiliated
Parties
Comment 5: Whether Commerce's ``Differential Pricing Test''
Should Continue to Be Used for the Final Results
VI. Recommendation
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