Notice2026-04223
Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs From India: Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders
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Published
March 4, 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 overhead door counterbalance torsion springs (overhead door springs) from India.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10583-10586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-04223]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-936, C-533-937]
Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs From India:
Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders
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 overhead door counterbalance
torsion springs (overhead door springs) from India.
DATES: Applicable March 4, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth Brown (AD), Office IX, telephone:
(202) 482-0029; and Zachary Shaykin (CVD), Office IV, telephone: (202)
482-2638; AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), on December 31, 2025, Commerce published
its affirmative final determinations of sales at less than fair value
(LTFV) of overhead door springs from India,\1\ and its affirmative
final determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided
to producers and exporters of overhead door springs from India.\2\ On
February 20, 2026, pursuant to sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Act,
the ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determinations \3\
that an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason
of dumped imports of overhead door springs from India, and subsidized
imports of overhead door springs from India, within the meaning of
sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act,
respectively.\4\
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\1\ See Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs from India:
Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value and
Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 90 FR
61366 (December 31, 2025) (LTFV Final Determination).
\2\ See Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs from India:
Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Final
Affirmative Critical Circumstances Determination, 90 FR 61369
(December 31, 2025) (CVD Final Determination).
\3\ See Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs from India;
Determinations, 91 FR 8270 (February 20, 2026) (ITC Final
Determinations).
\4\ See ITC's Letter, ``Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Investigations of Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs from
India,'' dated December 23, 2025 (ITC Notification Letter).
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Scope of the Orders
The product covered by these orders is overhead door springs from
India. For a complete description of the scope of these orders, see the
appendix to this notice.
AD Order
On February 20, 2026, 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 overhead
door springs from India that are sold in the United States at LTFV.
Therefore, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736(a) of the Act,
Commerce is issuing this AD order. Because the ITC determined that
imports of overhead door springs from India are materially injuring a
U.S. industry,\5\ unliquidated entries of such merchandise from India,
entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the
assessment of antidumping duties.
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\5\ 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 overhead door springs from India. Antidumping
duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of overhead door
springs entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after June 2, 2025, the date of publication of the LTFV Preliminary
Determination \6\ but will not
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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.
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\6\ See Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs from India:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of
Provisional Measures, 90 FR 23316 (June 2, 2025) (LTFV Preliminary
Determination).
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Critical Circumstances--AD
In addition, the ITC found that critical circumstances do not exist
with respect to imports of overhead door springs from India.\7\ As a
result, we intend to instruct CBP to lift the suspension of liquidation
and to refund all cash deposits for estimated antidumping duties with
respect to entries of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after March 4, 2025 (i.e., 90 days
prior to the date of publication of the affirmative LTFV Preliminary
Determination), but before June 2, 2025 (i.e., the date of publication
of the LTFV Preliminary Determination).
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\7\ See ITC Final Determinations, 91 FR at 8270.
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits--AD
In accordance with section 736 of the Act, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of overhead
door springs from India, effective on the date of publication of the
ITC's final affirmative injury determination in the Federal
Register.\8\ These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in
effect until further notice. Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to
require cash deposits equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping
margins listed in the LTFV Final Determination.\9\ The all-others rate
applies to all producers or exporters not specifically listed, as
appropriate. These instructions suspending liquidation and cash deposit
requirements will remain in effect until further notice.
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\8\ See ITC Final Determinations.
\9\ See LTFV Final Determination, 90 FR at 61367.
Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
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Cash deposit rate
Weighted-average (adjusted for
Producer or exporter dumping margin subsidy offsets)
(percent) (percent)
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Alcomex Springs Pvt Ltd......... * 126.14 100.45
Asha Spring and Engineering * 126.14 100.45
Company........................
Balaji Springs Pvt. Ltd......... * 126.14 100.45
Modern Engineering & Spring * 126.14 100.45
Company........................
Reliable Springs Ltd............ * 126.14 100.45
All Others...................... 86.45 60.76
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
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 exports 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 2, 2025, in which Commerce extended
the provisional measures period from a four-month period to a period
not greater than six months based on a request by the exporter
accounting for a significant proportion of exports of subject
merchandise.\10\ Therefore, the six-month period beginning on the date
of publication ended on November 28, 2025. Pursuant to section 737(b)
of the Act, the collection of cash deposits will begin on the date of
publication of the ITC's final injury determination (i.e., February 20,
2026).
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\10\ See LTFV Preliminary Determination, 90 FR at 23318.
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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 overhead door springs from India entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after November 29, 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, on February 20, 2026, the ITC notified Commerce of
its final determination that an industry is materially injured within
the meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of
subsidized imports of overhead door springs from India.\11\ Therefore,
in accordance with sections 705(c)(2) and 706(a) of the Act, Commerce
is issuing this CVD order. Moreover, because the ITC determined that
imports of overhead door springs from India are materially injuring a
U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from India,
entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, are subject to
the assessment of countervailing duties.
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\11\ 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 overhead door springs
from India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after April 3, 2025, the date of publication of the CVD Preliminary
Determination,\12\ 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.\13\
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\12\ See Overhead Door Counterbalance Torsion Springs from
India: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty
Determination, 90 FR 14602 (April 3, 2025) (CVD Preliminary
Determination).
\13\ Id.
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Critical Circumstances--CVD
In addition, the ITC found that critical circumstances do not exist
with respect to imports of overhead door springs from India.\14\ As a
result, we intend to instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any
cash deposits made to secure the payment of estimated countervailing
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duties with respect to entries of the subject merchandise entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after January 3, 2025
(i.e., 90 days prior to the date of the publication of the CVD
Preliminary Determination), but before April 3, 2025 (i.e., the date of
publication of the CVD Preliminary Determination).
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\14\ See ITC Notification Letter.
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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 suspension of liquidation on all relevant entries of
overhead door springs from India, 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 listed in the CVD Final Determination.\15\ These
instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further
notice.
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\15\ See CVD Final Determination, 90 FR at 61370.
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Commerce will also instruct CBP to require cash deposits.
Accordingly, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's final
affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register, CBP will
require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated
duties on the subject merchandise, a cash deposit for each entry of
subject merchandise equal to the subsidy rates listed in the CVD Final
Determination.\16\ The all-others rate applies to all producers and
exporters not specifically listed.
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\16\ Id.; see also section 706(a)(3) of the Act.
Estimated Countervailable Subsidy Rates
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Subsidy rate
Producer or exporter (percent ad
valorem)
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Alcomex Springs Pvt Ltd................................. * 172.08
Asha Spring and Engineering Company..................... * 172.08
Balaji Springs Pvt. Ltd................................. * 172.08
Modern Engineering & Spring Company..................... * 172.08
Reliable Springs Ltd.................................... * 172.08
All Others.............................................. 172.08 \17\
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Provisional Measures--CVD
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\17\ Commerce unintentionally and inadvertently placed a ``*''
in the rate applied to all other producers or exporters in the CVD
Final Determination. See CVD Final Determination, 90 FR at 61370.
Commerce did not make a determination based on sections 776(a) and
(b) of the Act with respect to all other producers or exporters.
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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 CVD
Preliminary Determination on April 3, 2025.\18\ As such, the four-month
period beginning on the date of the publication of the CVD Preliminary
Determination ended on July 31, 2025.
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\18\ See CVD Preliminary Determination.
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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 overhead door
springs from India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption 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 final determination
in the Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists
Commerce published the Final Rule and the Procedural Guidance in
the Federal Register on September 20 and September 27, 2021,
respectively.\19\ 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.\20\
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\19\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement
on Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September
20, 2021) (Final Rule); and Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry
Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27,
2021) (Procedural Guidance).
\20\ Id.
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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.'' \21\
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\21\ 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 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,\22\ 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. Commerce may update an annual service list at any time as
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of
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.
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\22\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206.
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Special Instructions for Petitioners 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.'' \23\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioners and the Government of India (GOI) 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 for which they qualify as interested parties. Pursuant to 19 CFR
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351.225(n)(3), the petitioners and the GOI will not need to resubmit
their entries of appearance each year to continue to be included on the
annual inquiry service list. However, the petitioners and the GOI 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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\23\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the AD/CVD orders with respect to overhead
door springs from India pursuant to sections 736(a) and 706(a) of the
Act. Interested parties can find a list of AD/CVD orders currently in
effect at <a href="https://www.trade.gov/data-visualization/adcvd-proceedings">https://www.trade.gov/data-visualization/adcvd-proceedings</a>.
These orders are published in accordance with sections 736(a) and
706(a) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: February 27, 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 helically-wound,
overhead door counterbalance torsion steel springs (overhead door
counterbalance torsion springs) and any cones, plugs or other
similar fittings for mounting and creating torque in the spring
(herein collectively referred to as cones) attached to or entered
with and invoiced with the subject overhead door counterbalance
torsion springs. Overhead door counterbalance torsion springs are
helical steel springs with tightly wound coils that store and
release mechanical energy by winding and unwinding along the
spring's axis by an angle, using torque to create a lifting force in
the counterbalance assembly typically used to raise and lower
overhead doors, including garage doors, industrial rolling doors,
warehouse doors, trailer doors, and other overhead doors, gates,
grates, or similar devices. The merchandise covered by these orders
covers all overhead door counterbalance torsion springs with a coil
inside diameter of 15.8 millimeters (mm) or more but not exceeding
304.8 mm (measured across the diameter from inner edge to inner
edge); a wire diameter of 2.5 mm to 20.4 mm; a length of 127 mm or
more; and regardless of the following characteristics:
<bullet> wire type (including, but not limited to, oil-tempered
wire, hard-drawn wire, music wire, galvanized or other coated wire);
<bullet> wire cross-sectional shape (e.g., round, square, or
other shapes);
<bullet> coating (e.g., uncoated, oil- or water-based coatings,
lubricant coatings, zinc, aluminum, zinc-aluminum, paint or plastic
coating, etc.);
<bullet> winding orientation (left-hand or right-hand wind
direction);
<bullet> end type (including, but not limited to, looped, double
looped, clipped, long length, mini warehouse, Barcol, Crawford,
Kinnear, Wagner, rolling steel or barrel ends); and
<bullet> whether the overhead door counterbalance torsion
springs are fitted with hardware, including but not limited to
fasteners, clips, and cones (winding or stationary cones).
For purposes of the diameters referenced above, where the
nominal and actual measurements vary, a product is within the scope
if application of either the nominal or actual measurement would
place it within the scope based on the definitions set forth above.
The steel torsion springs included in the scope of these orders
are produced from steel in which: (1) iron predominates, by weight,
over each of the other contained elements; and (2) the carbon
content is 2 percent or less, by weight.
Subject merchandise includes cones attached to or entered with
and invoiced with the subject overhead door counterbalance torsion
springs. Such cones, which are typically cast aluminum, aluminum
alloy or steel (but may be made from other materials) are made to
mount the subject springs to the overhead door counterbalance system
and create and maintain torque in the spring. Cones or other similar
fittings that are not attached to the subject springs or are not
entered with and invoiced with the subject springs are not included
within the scope unless entered as parts of kits as described below.
Subject merchandise also includes all subject overhead door
counterbalance torsion springs and cones or other similar fittings
for mounting and tensioning the spring entered as a part of overhead
door kits, overhead door mounting or assembly kits, or as a part of
a spring-operated motor assembly or as a part of a spring winder
assembly kit for torsion springs. When counterbalance torsion
springs and cones or other similar fittings for attaching and
tensioning the torsion spring are entered as a part of such kits,
only the counterbalance spring and cones or other similar fittings
in the kit are within scope. Subject merchandise also includes
overhead door counterbalance torsion springs that have been further
processed in a third country, including but not limited to cutting
to length, attachment of hardware, cones or end-fittings, inclusion
in garage door kits or garage door mounting or assembly kits, or any
other processing that would not remove the merchandise from the
scope of these orders if performed in the country of manufacture of
the in-scope overhead door counterbalance torsion springs. All
products that meet the written physical description are within the
scope of these orders unless specifically excluded. The following
products are specifically excluded from the scope of these orders:
<bullet> leaf springs (slender arc-shaped length of spring steel
of a rectangular cross-section);
<bullet> disc springs (conical springs consisting of a convex
disc with the outer edge working against the center of the disc);
<bullet> extension springs (close-wound round helical wire
springs that store and release energy by resisting the external
pulling forces applied to the spring's ends in the direction of its
length);
<bullet> compression springs (helical coiled springs with open
wound active coils (such open winding is also known as pitch) that
are designed to compress under load or force); and
<bullet> spiral springs (torsion springs wound as concentric
spirals such as a clock spring or mainspring).
The products subject to these orders are currently classified
under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
subheadings 7320.20.5020, 7320.20.5045 and 7320.20.5060. They may
also be classified under HTSUS subheading 8412.90.9085 if entered as
parts of spring-operated motors. They may also be classified in
HTSUS subheading 8412.80.1000 (spring-operated motors) if entered as
part of a spring counterweight assembly for an overhead door. They
may also be classified in HTSUS subheading 7308.90.9590, a basket
category that includes metal garage doors entered with mounting
accessories or assemblies.
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of these
orders is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2026-04223 Filed 3-3-26; 8:45 am]
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