Notice2026-03339
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
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Published
February 20, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico to correct certain ministerial errors. The period of review (POR) is November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 34 (Friday, February 20, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8184-8186]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-03339]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-201-844]
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: Amended Final Results
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the
final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD)
order on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico to correct
certain ministerial errors. The period of review (POR) is November 1,
2022, through October 31, 2023.
DATES: Applicable February 20, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kyle Clahane, 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) 482-5449.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 4, 2025, Commerce published the Final Results of the
administrative review of the AD order on rebar from Mexico in the
Federal Register.\1\ On September 15, 2025, we received timely filed
allegations of ministerial errors from Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. and
I.N.G.E.T.E.K.N.O.S. Estructurales, S.A. de C.V. (collectively, the
Deacero Group), the mandatory respondent in this administrative
review,\2\ and the Rebar Trade Action
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Coalition (RTAC) (the petitioners).\3\ On September 22, 2025, we
received timely filed rebuttal comments from the petitioners.\4\ We are
amending the Final Results to correct certain ministerial errors raised
by the petitioners.\5\
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\1\ See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Mexico: Final
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023, 90 FR
42740 (September 2, 2025) (Final Results), and accompanying Issues
and Decision Memorandum.
\2\ See Deacero Group's Letter, ``Ministerial Error Comments,''
dated September 15, 2025 (Deacero Group Ministerial Error
Allegation); see also Petitioners' Letter, ``RTAC's Ministerial
Error Allegations,'' dated September 15, 2025 (Petitioners'
Ministerial Error Allegations).
\3\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``RTAC's Rebuttal Ministerial Error
Allegations,'' dated September 22, 2025 (Petitioners' Rebuttal
Ministerial Error Allegations).
\4\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Petitioners' Response to OARC's
Ministerial Error Allegations,'' dated September 22, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Analysis of Ministerial Error
Allegations,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Ministerial
Error Memorandum).
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Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown,
on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative
proceedings by 47 days.\6\ 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.\7\
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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
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Legal Framework
Section 751(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
defines a ``ministerial error'' as including ``errors in addition,
subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical errors resulting
from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any other
unintentional error which the administering authority considers
ministerial.'' \8\ With respect to final results of administrative
reviews, 19 CFR 351.224(e) provides that Commerce ``will analyze any
comments received and, if appropriate, correct any . . . ministerial
error by amending the final results of review. . . .''
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\8\ See 19 CFR 351.224(f).
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Ministerial Errors
In its ministerial error comments, the Deacero Group alleged that
Commerce made ministerial errors in its: (1) application of partial
adverse facts available (AFA) for certain international freight
expenses; and (2) its application of partial AFA to indirect selling
expenses.\9\ In its allegation, the petitioners argued that Commerce's
application of partial AFA to the Deacero Group's U.S. freight was
inaccurate.\10\ In the ministerial error rebuttal comments, the
petitioners argued that the Deacero Group's ministerial error
allegations concerning freight and indirect selling expenses were
untimely alleged and not ministerial in nature.\11\
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\9\ See Deacero Group Ministerial Error Allegation at 2-9.
\10\ See Petitioners' Ministerial Error Allegations at 4-6.
\11\ See Petitioners' Rebuttal Ministerial Error Allegations at
4-6.
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We agree with the petitioners that we made a ministerial error
regarding the application of AFA to the Deacero Group's U.S. freight
expenses in the Final Results, pursuant to section 751(h) of the Act
and 19 CFR 351.224(f), and have amended our calculations to correct
this error.\12\ Regarding the Deacero Group's allegations concerning
the application of AFA to indirect selling expenses and certain
international freight expenses, we disagree that these allegations
constitute ministerial errors within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.224(f).
Accordingly, we have not amended our calculations with respect to these
allegations.
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\12\ See Memorandum, ``Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Mexico; 2022-2023: Analysis of
Ministerial Error Allegations,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby
adopted by, this notice (Ministerial Error Memorandum).
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For a complete discussion of the ministerial error allegations, as
well as Commerce's analysis, see the Ministerial Error Memorandum.\13\
The Ministerial Error 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>.
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\13\ Id.
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Amended Final Results of Review
As a result of correcting the ministerial error described above, we
determine the following estimated weighted-average dumping margin for
the period November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023:
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Weighted-
average dumping
Exporter/producer margin
(percent)
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Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V./I.N.G.E.T.E.K.N.O.S. 36.34
Estructurales, S.A. de C.V............................
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations performed in connection with
these amended final results of review to parties in this review within
five days of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal
Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Assessment Rates
Normally, Commerce would issue assessment instructions to U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) no earlier than 41 days after the
date of publication of the amended final results of this review in the
Federal Register. However, in this case, a timely request for panel
review under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has been filed,
and a suspension of liquidation is in place. Therefore, we will not
issue assessment instructions until the suspension of liquidation has
been lifted. When the suspension of liquidation lifts such that we can
issue assessment instructions, and where the respondent reported the
entered value of its U.S. sales, we calculated importer-specific AD
assessment rates by aggregating the total amount of dumping calculated
for the examined sales of each importer and dividing each of these
amounts by the total entered value associated with those sales.\14\
Where the respondent did not report entered value, we calculated 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. To determine whether an
importer-specific, per-unit assessment rate is de minimis, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we also calculated an importer-
specific ad valorem ratio based on estimated entered values. 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,
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we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without
regard to antidumping duties.
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\14\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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Consistent with Commerce's assessment practice, for entries of
subject merchandise during the POR produced by the Deacero Group for
which the producer did not know that its merchandise was destined for
the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries
at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\15\
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\15\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following amended 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 these
amended final results of this administrative review, as provided by
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the
Deacero Group will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin
established in the amended final results of this administrative review;
(2) for previously reviewed or investigated companies not participating
in this review, 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 investigation but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will
be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of this
proceeding for the producer of the subject merchandise; and (4) the
cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to
be 20.58 percent, the rate established in the less-than-fair-value
investigation.\16\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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\16\ See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Mexico: Antidumping
Duty Order, 79 FR 65925, 65926 (November 6, 2014).
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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 double antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order (APO)
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an APO
of their responsibility concerning the destruction of proprietary
information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR
351.305(a)(3). 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 terms of an APO
is a sanctionable violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these amended final results in
accordance with sections 751(h) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.224(e).
Dated: February 13, 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.
[FR Doc. 2026-03339 Filed 2-19-26; 8:45 am]
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