Notice2026-00193
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Taiwan: Preliminary Results and Rescission, In Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
January 8, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Taiwan are not being sold in the United States at below normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 5 (Thursday, January 8, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 691-694]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-00193]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-583-856]
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Taiwan:
Preliminary Results and Rescission, In Part, 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) preliminarily
determines that certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from
Taiwan are not being sold in the United States at below normal value
during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable January 8, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Cohen or Anjali Mehindiratta,
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) 482-4521
or (202) 482-9127, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 1, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register a
notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the AD
order \1\ on CORE from Taiwan.\2\ In July 2024, Commerce received
timely requests to conduct an administrative review of entries of CORE
from Taiwan during the POR from Prosperity Tieh Enterprise, Co., Ltd.
(Prosperity),\3\ and the petitioners.\4\ On August 14, 2024, we
published a notice initiating an AD administrative review of CORE from
Taiwan with respect to nine companies.\5\
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\1\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India,
Italy, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and
Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for
India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390 (July 25,
2016) (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 54437 (July 1,
2024).
\3\ See Prosperity's Letter, ``Request for Administrative
Review,'' dated July 31, 2024.
\4\ The petitioners are Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Steel Dynamics
Inc. (SDI), Nucor Corporation, and United States Steel Corporation,
manufacturers of the domestic like product in the United States and
are therefore interested parties within the meaning of section
771(9)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). See
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request for Administrative Review,'' dated
July 31, 2024 (Petitioners' Review Request).
\5\ These companies are: (1) China Steel Corporation; (2) Chung
Hung Steel Corporation; (3) Great Fortune Steel Co., Ltd.; (4) Great
Grandeul Steel Co., Ltd.; (5) Great Grandeul Steel Company Limited
(Samoa) (Great Grandeul Samoa); (6) Great Grandeul Steel
Corporation; (7) Prosperity; (8) Sheng Yu Steel Co., Ltd. (SYSCO);
and (9) Xxentria Technology Materials Company Ltd. See Initiation of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 89 FR
66035, 66042 (August 14, 2024) (Initiation Notice).
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On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this
administrative proceeding by 90 days.\6\ On June 2, 2024, Commerce
extended the deadline for these preliminary results until August 29,
2025.\7 \Additionally, due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal
Government shutdown, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative
proceedings
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by 47 days.\8\ Further, due to a backlog of documents that were
electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS)
during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24, 2025, Commerce
tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an additional 21
days.\9\ Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is now
January 5, 2026.
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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated June 2,
2025.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\9\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\10\
A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
attached as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via
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 accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
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\10\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
for Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan; 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 certain flat-rolled steel
products, either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant
metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-
based alloys, whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished,
laminated, or coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances in
addition to the metallic coating. A full description of the scope of
the Order is contained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rescission of Review, In Part
As noted above, we initiated this review with respect to nine
companies.\11\ During the course of the review, we selected two
mandatory respondents: Prosperity and SYSCO.\12\ As a consequence,
there are seven companies upon which a review was requested and which
were not selected for individual examination.
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\11\ See Initiation Notice, 89 FR at 66042.
\12\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated October 9,
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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 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry
data, six of the companies identified in the Initiation Notice had no
entries of subject merchandise during the POR.\13\ On September 18,
2024, Commerce released CBP data for U.S. imports of subject
merchandise from Taiwan from the firms identified in the Initiation
Notice during the POR, and provided notice to interested parties of
Commerce's intent to rescind this instant review with respect to
companies with no entries listed in the CBP data.\14\ Commerce received
no comments on its intent to rescind this review with respect to these
six companies. As a result, we are rescinding this review, in part,
with respect to the six companies which had no entries during the POR.
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\13\ These companies are: 1) China Steel Corporation; 2) Chung
Hung Steel Corporation; 3) Great Fortune Steel Co., Ltd.; 4) Great
Grandeul Steel Co., Ltd.; 5) Great Grandeul Steel Corporation; and
6) Xxentria Technology Materials Company Ltd. See Memorandum,
``Release of Customs Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection &
Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,'' dated September 18,
2024 (CBP Data Release Memorandum) at 1 and Attachment 2.
\14\ Id.
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. Export price was calculated in accordance with
section 772 of the Act. Normal value was calculated in accordance with
section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology
underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rate for Non-Examined Company
The Act and Commerce's regulations do not directly address the
establishment of a rate to be applied to individual companies not
selected for examination when Commerce limits its examination in an
administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act.
Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which
provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in a less-
than-fair-value (LFTV) investigation, for guidance when calculating the
rate for companies which were not selected for individual review in an
administrative review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-
others rate is normally ``an amount equal to the weighted average of
the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for
exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero
or de minimis margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the
basis of facts available{time} .''
Where the dumping margin for individually examined respondents are
all zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available, section
735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that Commerce may use ``any reasonable
method to establish the estimated all-others rate for exporters and
producers not individually investigated, including averaging the
estimated weighted average dumping margins determined for the exporters
and producers individually investigated.''
In this administrative review, we preliminarily calculated a
dumping margin of zero percent for both Prosperity and SYSCO. Thus, in
accordance with the expected method, and consistent with the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in Albemarle,\15\ and
Commerce's practice,\16\ we preliminarily assigned to the non-selected
company, Great Grandeul Samoa, a zero percent rate, based on the rates
calculated for the two mandatory respondents.
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\15\ See Albemarle Corp. v. United States, 821 F.3d 1345, 1352
(Fed. Cir. 2016) (Albemarle) (holding that Commerce may only use
``other reasonable methods'' if it reasonably concludes that the
expected method is ``not feasible'' or ``would not be reasonably
reflective of potential dumping margins'').
\16\ See, e.g., Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 87 FR 60989 (October 7, 2022),
unchanged in Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 20218 (April 5, 2023).
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Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the
following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the
period July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024:
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Prosperity Tieh Enterprises Co., Ltd........................ 0.00
Sheng Yu Steel Co........................................... 0.00
Great Grandeul Steel Company Limited (Samoa)................ 0.00
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in
connection with these preliminary results to interested parties within
five days after the date of publication of this notice in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.224(b).\17\
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\17\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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Public Comment
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.\18\
Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be
filed no later than five days after the date for filing case
briefs.\19\ Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal
briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents listing
each issue; and (2) a table of authorities.\20\
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\18\ Commerce is exercising its discretion under 19 CFR
351.309(c)(1)(ii) to alter the time limit for the filing of case
briefs. See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
\19\ 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 Procedures).
\20\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2)(iii) and (d)(2)(iii), we
request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their
briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their
briefs.\21\ 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 in this administrative
review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for
relevant citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note
that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\22\
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\21\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\22\ See APO and Service Procedures.
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Interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, filed electronically via
ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice.\23\ Requests should contain the party's
name, address, and telephone number, the number of participants, and a
list of the issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will
be limited to those raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. If a
request for a hearing is made, we will inform parties of the scheduled
date for the hearing at a time and location to be determined.\24\
Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the
hearing no fewer than two days before the scheduled date.
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\23\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
\24\ See 19 CFR 351.310.
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Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise 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 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, Commerce shall determine, and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review. The final
results of this review shall be the basis for the assessment of
antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by this review and
for future deposits of estimated duties, where applicable.\25\ 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).
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\25\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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If the respective weighted-average dumping margins are above de
minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of this review, we
will calculate importer-specific ad valorem antidumping duty assessment
rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for
the importer's examined sales to the total entered value of those same
sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\26\ If the respondent
has not reported entered values, we will calculate a per-unit
assessment rate for each importer by dividing the total amount of
dumping calculated for the examined sales made to that importer by the
total quantity associated with those sales. We will instruct CBP to
assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this
review when the importer-specific assessment rate calculated in the
final results of this review is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent).
Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero
or de minimis, or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de
minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries
without regard to antidumping duties.
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\26\ 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).
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In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice,
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the
respondents for which they did not know that the merchandise was
destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate
entries not reviewed at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
For the company which was not selected for individual examination,
we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties at an ad valorem
assessment rate equal to the company-specific weighted-average dumping
margin determined in the final results.
For the six companies rescinded from review, 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).
Commerce intends to issue recission instructions to CBP no earlier than
35 days after the publication of these preliminary results in the
Federal Register.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of the final results of the administrative
review for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of
publication of the final results, as provided by section 751(a)(2) of
the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for each company listed above will
be equal to the dumping margins established in the final results of
this review, except if the ultimate rate is de minimis within the
meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit rates
will be zero; (2) for merchandise exported by producers or exporters
not covered in this administrative review but covered in a prior
segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be
the company-specific rate published for the most recently completed
segment of this proceeding in which the producer or exporter
participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review,
a prior review, or the original LTFV investigation but the producer is,
then
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the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most
recently completed segment of the proceeding for the producer of the
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or
exporters will continue to be 11.04 percent, the all-others rate
established in the Third Amended Final Determination.\27\ These cash
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until
further notice.
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\27\ See Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan: Notice
of Third Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less than Fair
Value Pursuant to Court Decision and Partial Exclusion from
Antidumping Duty Order, 88 FR 58245, 58247 (August 25, 2023).
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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 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 double antidumping duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), and
19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: January 5, 2026.
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. Discussion of the Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
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