Notice2026-03103
Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
February 18, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain producers/exporters of stainless steel bar (SS Bar) from India made sales at prices below normal value during the period of review (POR), February 1, 2023, through January 31, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 18, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7442-7444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-03103]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-810]
Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final 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) determines that
certain producers/exporters of stainless steel bar (SS Bar) from India
made sales at prices below normal value during the period of review
(POR), February 1, 2023, through January 31, 2024.
DATES: Applicable February 18, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3477.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 11, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
Preliminary Results of the 2023-2024 administrative review of the
antidumping duty (AD) order on SS Bar from India.\1\ On August 5, 2025,
we issued the Post-Preliminary Results of this administrative
review.\2\ On August 6, 2025, we invited interested parties to comment
on the Preliminary Results and on the Post-Preliminary Results, in
which Commerce revised the differential pricing methodology.\3\ On
September 18, 2025, we extended the deadline for issuing the final
results of administrative review by 57 days to December 5, 2025.\4\ Due
to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown, on
November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative
proceedings by 47 days.\5\ Additionally, 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.\6\ Accordingly, the deadline for these final
results is now February 11, 2026.
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\1\ See Stainless Steel Bar from India: Preliminary Results and
Intent to Rescind, In Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2023-2024, 90 FR 24566 (June 11, 2025) (Preliminary
Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Post-Preliminary Analysis for the
Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Stainless
Steel Bar from India,'' dated August 5, 2025 (Post-Preliminary
Results).
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines for Case and Rebuttal Briefs,''
dated August 6, 2025; see also Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadlines
for Case and Rebuttal Briefs,'' dated August 11, 2025.
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024,'' dated September
18, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
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For a complete description of the events that occurred since the
Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\7\
Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 751(a) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of
Stainless Steel Bar from India; 2023-2024,'' dated concurrently
with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision
Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>8</SUP>
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\8\ See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from
Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995) (Orders).
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The products covered by the Order are SS Bar from India. A full
description of the scope of the Order is contained in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.\9\
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\9\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs filed by parties
in this review are listed in the appendix to this notice and addressed
in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. The Issues and 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 Issues and
Decision Memorandum can be accessed at
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<a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results and Post-Preliminary Results
Commerce evaluated the comments in the case and rebuttal briefs and
made no changes from the Preliminary Results or Post-Preliminary
Results. For a more detailed discussion of the issues raised by
parties, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part
As explained in the Preliminary Results, Commerce received a
request for review of Bhansali Bright Bars (Bhansali) and Chandan
Steels Limited (Chandan).\10\ On April 22, 2024, Commerce placed U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry data for U.S. imports of
subject merchandise during the POR on the record for respondent
selection purposes, which reflected no entries from Bhansali and
Chandan.\11\
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\10\ See Memorandum, ``Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of
Stainless Steel Bar from India: Respondent Selection,'' dated May
17,2024.
\11\ See Memorandum, ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Data Release,'' dated April 22, 2024.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to
rescind an administrative review of an AD order where it determines
that there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the
POR. Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the
suspended entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate for the
review period.\12\ Therefore, for an administrative review to be
conducted, there must be a suspended entry that Commerce can instruct
CBP to liquidate at the calculated AD assessment rate for the review
period.\13\
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\12\ See, e.g., Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length
Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Rescission of
Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 4157 (January
24, 2023).
\13\ See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co. v. United States,
380 F. Supp. 3d 1328, 1335-36 (CIT 2019) (referring to section
741(a) of the Act, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) held
that: ``While the statute does not explicitly require that an entry
be suspended as a prerequisite for establishing entitlement to a
review, it does explicitly state the determined rate will be used as
the liquidated rate for the review entries. This result can only
obtain if the liquidation of entries has been suspended''); see also
Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review And Final
Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019, 86 FR 36102 (July 8,
2021), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 4;
and Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian
Federation: Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, 77 FR 65532 (October 29, 2012) (noting that ``for an
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable,
suspended entry to be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment
rate'').
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We provided interested parties with an opportunity to submit
comments on our intent to rescind, in part, the administrative review
concerning Bhansali and Chandan.\14\ We did not receive any comments
from interested parties concerning our intent to rescind, in part, the
administrative review concerning Bhansali and Chandan. Accordingly, in
the absence of reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise
during the POR, we are rescinding this administrative review for
Bhansali and Chandan, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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\14\ See Preliminary Results PDM at 4.
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Rate for Non-Examined Companies
The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address the
establishment of a rate to be applied to 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 market economy investigation, for
guidance when calculating the rate for companies which were not
selected for individual examination 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. Where the rates
for individually investigated companies are all zero or de minimis, or
determined entirely using facts otherwise available, section
735(c)(5)(B) of the Act instructs Commerce to rely on ``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 exporters and
producers individually investigated.''
In this review, for the final results, Commerce determined to apply
adverse facts available (AFA) to Atlas Stainless Corporation Private
Limited (Atlas), pursuant to section 776 of the Act, and assigned it a
30.92 percent dumping margin, and calculated an estimated weighted-
average dumping margin for Aamor Inox Limited (Aamor) of 0.00 percent.
Thus, for the final results, we applied to the non-examined companies,
Ambica Steels Limited, Laxcon Steels Limited and its affiliates, Ocean
Steels Private Limited, Metlax International Private Limited, Parvati
Private Limited, Mega Steels Private Limited, and Meltroll Engineering
Pvt. Ltd., the rate of 15.46 percent, which is the simple average of
the rate we calculated for Aamor and the dumping margin we have
assigned to Atlas, determined entirely under section 776 of the
Act.\15\
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\15\ See Baroque Timber Indus. (Zhonghan) Co. v. United States,
971 F. Supp. 2d 1333, 1341 (CIT 2014) (``it is not per se
unreasonable for Commerce to use a simple average of zero and AFA
rates to calculate the separate rate''); see also Solianus, Inc. v.
United States, 391 F. Supp. 3d 1331, 1339 (CIT 2019).
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Final Results of Review
We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margins
exist for the period February 1, 2023, through January 31, 2024:
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\16\ Record information indicates that Astrabright LLP., and
Astrabite LLP., are the same company and therefore, we are assigning
the same rate to Astrabright LLP., and Astrabite LLP. For further
details, see Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2.
\17\ Collectively, these companies are known as Laxcon.
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Weighted-average
Producer/exporter dumping margin
(percent)
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Aamor Inox Limited.................................. 0.00
Atlas Stainless Corporation Private Limited, * 30.92
Astrabright LLP., Astrabite LLP.,\16\ Bahubali
Steel Industries, Eurostahl Tech LLP, Venus Metal
Corporation, Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd.,
Precision Metals, Hindustan Inox Ltd., and Sieves
Manufacturers (India) Pvt. Ltd.....................
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Review-Specific Rates for Non-Examined Companies
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Ambica Steels Limited............................... 15.46
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Laxcon Steels Limited, and its affiliates, Ocean 15.46
Steels Private Limited, Metlax International
Private Limited, Parvati Private Limited, and Mega
Steels Private Limited \17\........................
Meltroll Engineering Pvt. Ltd....................... 15.46
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Disclosure
Normally, Commerce will disclose the calculations performed in
connection with the final results to parties in the proceeding within
five days of the date of public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of the final
results in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
However, because we have made no changes to the Post-Preliminary
Results, regarding our margin calculation for Aamor, there are no new
calculations to disclose.
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b),
Commerce shall determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on
all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the
final results of this review. For any individually examined respondents
whose weighted-average dumping margin is above de minimis, we
calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based on
the ratio of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated for the
examined sales to the total entered value of the examined sales to that
importer, and we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this. 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 zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the
appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results
of this administrative review in the Federal Register, as provided for
by section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for
companies subject to this review will be the rates established in these
final results of the review; (2) for merchandise exported by producers
or exporters not covered in this 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 recent period; (3) if the
exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the
original investigation but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate
will be the rate established for the most recent period for the
producer of the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all other
producers or exporters will continue to be 12.45 percent,\18\ the all-
others rate established in the investigation. These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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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 POR. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement
of antidumping duties has occurred and the subsequent assessment of
double antidumping duties.
Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order (APO)
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an APO
of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of
proprietary information disclosed under 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 or 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 sanctionable
violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: February 11, 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 Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes From the Preliminary Results and Post-Preliminary
Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Whether to Rescind the Review of Chandan Steels
Limited (Chandan)
Comment 2: Whether to Assign Astrabite LLP the Same Rate as
Astrabright LLP
Comment 3: Whether to Find Atlas to be Affiliated with Hindustan
Inox Limited (Hindustan) and Sieves Manufactures (India) Private
Limited (Sieves)
Comment 4: Whether to Collapse Atlas with Hindustan and Sieves
Comment 5: Whether to Apply Total Adverse Facts Available (AFA)
to Atlas
Comment 6: Whether to Apply Commerce's New Differential Pricing
Methodology
Comment 7: Whether to Calculate the Non-Selected Respondents'
Rate Based on the Mandatory Respondents' Rates
VI. Recommendation
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