Notice2026-01454
Slag Pots From the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order and Countervailing Duty Order
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Published
January 26, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on slag pots from the People's Republic of China (China).
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 16 (Monday, January 26, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3117-3119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-01454]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-196, C-570-197]
Slag Pots From the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty
Order and Countervailing Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S.
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping duty (AD) and
countervailing duty (CVD) orders on slag pots from the People's
Republic of China (China).
DATES: Applicable January 26, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George McMahon (AD) or Samuel Brummitt
(CVD), AD/CVD Operations, Offices VI and III, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482-1167 or (202) 482-7851, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), on August 28, 2025, Commerce published its
affirmative final determination of sales at less than fair value (LTFV)
of slag pots from China,\1\ and its affirmative final determination
that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and
exporters of slag pots from China.\2\ On November 25, 2025, pursuant to
sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its
final affirmative determinations that an industry in the United States
is materially injured by reason of dumped imports of slag pots from
China, and subsidized imports of slag pots from China, within the
meaning of sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.\3\
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\1\ See Slag Pots from the People's Republic of China: Final
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 90 FR
41990 (August 28, 2025) (LTFV Final Determination).
\2\ See Slag Pots from the People's Republic of China: Final
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 90 FR 41986 (August
28, 2025) (Final CVD Determination).
\3\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determinations,'' dated November 25, 2025 (ITC Notification Letter).
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Scope of the Orders
The product covered by these orders are slag pots from China. For a
complete description of the scope of the orders, see the appendix to
this notice.
AD Order
On November 25, 2025, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act,
the ITC notified Commerce of its final determination that an industry
in the United States is materially injured within the meaning of
section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of imports of slag pots
from China that are sold in the United States at LTFV.\4\ Therefore, in
accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce is
issuing this AD order. Because the ITC determined that imports of slag
pots from China are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated
entries of such merchandise from China, entered or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption are subject to the assessment of antidumping
duties.
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\4\ Id.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act,
Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal
to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the
export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise on all
relevant entries of slag pots from China. Antidumping duties will be
assessed on unliquidated entries of slag pots from China entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after June 17, 2025,
the date of publication of the LTFV Preliminary Determination but will
not include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional
measures period and before the publication of the ITC's final injury
determination under section 705(b) of the Act, as further described in
the ``Provisional Measures--AD'' section of this notice.\5\
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\5\ See Slag Pots from the People's Republic of China:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, 90 FR 25584 (June 17, 2025) (LTFV Preliminary Determination).
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits--AD
Commerce intends to instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation
on all relevant entries of slag pots from China, in accordance with
section 736 of the Act. These instructions suspending liquidations will
remain in effect until further notice.
Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits
equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margin indicated in the
table below, adjusted by the relevant subsidy offsets. Accordingly,
effective on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the
notice of the ITC's final affirmative injury determination, CBP must
require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated
customs duties on subject merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the
rates listed in the LTFV Final Determination.\6\
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\6\ See LTFV Final Determination, 90 FR at 41991.
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Provisional Measures--AD
Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a
significant proportion of export of the subject merchandise request
that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months.
In the underlying investigation, Commerce published the LTFV
Preliminary Determination on June 17, 2025.\7\ Therefore, the four-
month period beginning on the date of publication ended on October 14,
2025. Pursuant to section 737(b) of the Act, the collection of cash
deposits will begin on the date
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\7\ See LTFV Preliminary Determination.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act, Commerce
will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to
liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries
of slag pots from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after October 15, 2025, the first day provisional
measures were no longer in effect, until and through the day preceding
the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the
Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash
deposits will resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final
determination in the Federal Register.
CVD Order
As stated above, based on the above-referenced affirmative final
determination by the ITC that an industry in the United States is
materially injured within the meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the
Act by reason of subsidized imports of slag pots from China,\8\ in
accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the Act, Commerce is issuing this
CVD order. Moreover, because the ITC determined that imports of slag
pots from China are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated
entries of subject merchandise from China, entered or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption, are subject to the assessment of
countervailing duties.
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\8\ See ITC Notification Letter.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce
intends to direct CBP to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce,
countervailing duties on unliquidated entries of slag pots from China
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after April
3, 2025, the date of publication of the Preliminary CVD
Determination,\9\ but will not include entries occurring after the
expiration of the provisional measures period and before the
publication of the ITC's final injury determination under section
705(b) of the Act, as further described in the ``Provisional Measures--
CVD'' section of this notice.
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\9\ See Slag Pots from the People's Republic of China:
Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 90 FR
14625 (April 3, 2025) (Preliminary CVD Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits--CVD
In accordance with section 706 of the Act, we will instruct CBP to
reinstitute the suspension of liquidation on all relevant entries of
slag pots from China, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's
final affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register, and to
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, pursuant to section
706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing duties on each entry of subject
merchandise in an amount based on the net countervailable subsidy rates
below. On or after the date of publication of the ITC's final injury
determination in the Federal Register, CBP must require, at the same
time as importers would normally deposit estimated customs duties on
this merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed in Final CVD
Determination.\10\ These instructions suspending liquidation will
remain in effect until further notice. The all-others rate applies to
all producers or exporters not specifically listed.
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\10\ See Final CVD Determination, 90 FR 41986 at 41987.
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Provisional Measures--CVD
Section 703(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months. Commerce published the Preliminary
CVD Determination on April 3, 2025.\11\ As such, the four-month period
beginning on the date of the publication of the Preliminary CVD
Determination ended on July 31, 2025.
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\11\ Id.
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In accordance with section 703(d) of the Act, we will instruct CBP
to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without
regard to countervailing duties, unliquidated entries of slag pots from
China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or
after August 1, 2025, the date on which the provisional measures
expired, until and through the day preceding the date of publication of
the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal Register.
Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will
resume on the date of publication of the ITC's affirmative final injury
determination in the Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\12\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published
the Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\13\ The Final Rule and
Procedural Guidance provide that Commerce will maintain an annual
inquiry service list for each order or suspended investigation, and any
interested party submitting a scope ruling application or request for
circumvention inquiry shall serve a copy of the application or request
on the persons on the annual inquiry service list for that order, as
well as any companion order covering the same merchandise from the same
country of origin.
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\12\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September
20, 2021) (Final Rule).
\13\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
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In accordance with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in
the Federal Register after November 4, 2021, Commerce will create an
annual inquiry service list segment in Commerce's online e-filing and
document management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>, within five business days of publication of the
notice of the order. Each annual inquiry service list will be saved in
ACCESS, under each case number, and under a specific segment type
called ``AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.'' \14\
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\14\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment
Specific Information (SSI) field which will display the month in
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL-January
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance,\15\ the new annual
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is
published.
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Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of
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appearance to remove or otherwise modify their list of members and
representatives, or to update contact information. Any changes or
announcements pertaining to these procedures will be posted to the
ACCESS website.
Special Instructions for Petitioner and Foreign Governments
In the Final Rule, Commerce stated that, ``after an initial request
and placement on the annual inquiry service list, both petitioners and
foreign governments will automatically be placed on the annual inquiry
service list in the years that follow.'' \16\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioner and the Government of China (GOC) should submit
their initial entries of appearance after publication of this notice in
order to appear in the first annual inquiry service lists for these
orders. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the GOC
will not need to resubmit their entries of appearance each year to
continue to be included on the annual inquiry service list. However,
the petitioner and the GOC are responsible for making amendments to
their entries of appearance during the annual update to the annual
inquiry service list in accordance with the procedures described above.
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\16\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the AD and CVD orders with respect to slag
pots from China, pursuant to sections 706(a) and 736(a) of the Act.
Interested parties can find a list of AD and CVD orders currently in
effect at <a href="https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html">https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html</a>.
These orders are published in accordance with sections 706(a) and
736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: January 21, 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
Scope of the Orders
The merchandise covered by these orders is slag pots with a
nominal capacity of 65 cubic feet to 1200 cubic feet regardless of
shape, form, or finish.
Slag pots are load bearing devices typically formed as a curved
shell or bowl-shaped container. Slag pots are metallurgical goods
typically produced either using a casting process or a fabrication
process (e.g., welding) and may include a ceramic refractory
coating, heat treatment or various finishes in order to handle high
temperature slag. Slag pots may contain integral features or
attachments including (1) legs (or a stand) and (2) pivotal mounting
hooks or brackets. Legs (or a stand) are a fixed or detachable
support structure which allows the slag pot to be securely
positioned upright on a surface when not being lifted or transported
and may also keep the slag pot off the ground and allow for air
cooling. The pivotal mounting hooks and brackets are specialized
attachment points (such as lifting lugs or trunnions) that allow the
slag pot to be securely lifted and transported by a crane or lifting
device, or that enable the slag pot to swing or rotate while
remaining attached to the lifting mechanism. The merchandise covered
by these orders includes all aforementioned attachments of a fully
assembled slag pot, regardless of whether shipped assembled or
unassembled.
Slag pots are included within the scope whether finished or
unfinished, whether imported individually or with other subject or
non-subject merchandise, or whether assembled with attachments or
unassembled. Finishing includes, but is not limited to, arc washing,
welding, grinding, shot blasting, heat treatment, machining, and
assembly of various parts.
The country of origin for slag pots whether fully assembled,
unfinished or finished, is the country where the slag pot was cast
or forged. Subject merchandise includes slag pots that have been
further processed or further assembled in a third country. Further
processing and further assembly include, but is not limited to, arc
washing, welding, grinding, shot blasting, heat treatment, painting,
coating, priming, machining, and assembly of attachments.
Slag pots subject to these orders are specified within the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under
subheadings 7309.00.0090 and 8454.20.0080. The slag pot attachments
covered by the scope of these orders may enter under HTSUS
subheadings 7316.00.0000, 7325.10.0080, 7325.99.1000, 7325.99.5000,
and 7326.19.0080. Although the HTSUS statistical reporting numbers
are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written
description of the merchandise is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2026-01454 Filed 1-23-26; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
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