Notice2026-04995
Oil Country Tubular Goods From Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
March 16, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that producers and/or exporters subject to this administrative review made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) September 1, 2023, through August 31, 2024. Commerce is also rescinding this review, in part, with respect to two companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 50 (Monday, March 16, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12563-12565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-04995]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-552-817]
Oil Country Tubular Goods From Socialist Republic of Vietnam:
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 finds
that producers and/or exporters subject to this administrative review
made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during
the period of review (POR) September 1, 2023, through August 31, 2024.
Commerce is also rescinding this review, in part, with respect to two
companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable March 16, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Preston Cox or Theodora Mattei, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; (240) 956-8630 or (202) 482-4834,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 10, 2014, Commerce published in the Federal Register
the antidumping duty order on oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).\1\ On September 3, 2024,
Commerce published a notice of opportunity to request an administrative
review of the Order.\2\ On October 17, 2024, Commerce initiated an
administrative review of the Order, in accordance with section 751(a)
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).\3\ On November 19,
2024, Commerce notified interested parties of its intent to rescind the
administrative review with respect to Halima Pipe Company (Halima) and
Pusan Pipe America, Inc. (PPA).\4\
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\1\ See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from India, the
Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the Republic of Turkey, and the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders; and Certain Oil
Country Tubular Goods from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:
Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 79 FR
53691 (September 10, 2014) (Order); see also Certain Oil Country
Tubular Goods from India, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the
Republic of Turkey, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Notice of
Correction to the Antidumping Duty Orders With Respect to Turkey and
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 79 FR 59740 (October 3, 2014).
\2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 89 FR 71254 (September
3, 2024).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 77079 (September 20, 2024).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Intent to Rescind Administrative Review,
In Part,'' dated November 19, 2024 (Intent to Rescind Memorandum).
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On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this
administrative proceeding by 90 days.\5\ On July 23, 2025, in
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(h)(2), Commerce extended the time period for issuing these
preliminary results by 107 days.\6\ Due to the lapse in appropriations
and Federal Government shutdown, on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled
all deadlines in administrative proceedings by 47 days.\7\
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.\8\
Between February 13, and March 2, 2026, in accordance with section
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), Commerce extended the
time period for issuing these preliminary results by an additional 13
days.\9\ Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is now
March 9, 2026.
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\5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,''dated July 23,
2025.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 17, 2025.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\9\ See Memoranda, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated February
13, 2026, and ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated March 2, 2026.
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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 included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
included 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
on Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;
2023-2024,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this
notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is OCTG. For a complete
description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Recission of Administrative Review, in Part
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to
rescind an administrative review of an antidumping duty order where it
concludes that there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise
during the POR.\11\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative
review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty
assessment rate for the review period.\12\ Therefore, for an
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable,
suspended entry that Commerce can instruct CBP to liquidate at the
calculated antidumping duty assessment rate for the review period.\13\
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\11\ See, e.g., Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to Length
Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Recission of Antidumping
Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 4154 (January 24, 2023).
\12\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\13\ See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co. v. United States,
380 F.Supp.3d 1328, 1337 (CIT 2019), at 12 (referring to section
751(a) of the Act, the U.S. Court of International Trade held that
``{w{time} hile 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 liquidation rate for the reviewed 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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On November 19, 2025, Commerce notified all interested parties of
its intent to rescind the instant review regarding Halima and PPA
because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject
merchandise from these companies during the POR and invited interested
parties to comment.\14\ We received no comments. Therefore, in the
absence of suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR, we
are hereby rescinding this administrative review, in part, with respect
to Halima and PPA, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).\15\
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\14\ See Intent to Rescind Memorandum.
\15\ Id. We are rescinding our review of U.S. importer PPA.
However, we continue to review sales made through PPA as part of our
review of SeAH VINA.
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Vietnam-Wide Entity
Commerce's policy regarding conditional review of the Vietnam-wide
entity applies to this administrative review.\16\ Under this policy,
the Vietnam-wide entity will not be under review unless a party
specifically requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a review of the
entity. Because no party requested a review of the Vietnam-wide entity,
the entity is not under review, and the entity's rate of 111.47 percent
is not subject to change.
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\16\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013).
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Act. Export price is calculated in
accordance with section 772 of the Act. NV is calculated in accordance
with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology
underlying these preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period September 1,
2023, through August 31, 2024:
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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SeAH Steel VINA Corporation................................ 12.84
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis
performed to interested parties for these preliminary results within
five days of any public announcement, or if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this
notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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 publication of this notice. Rebuttal
briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not
later than five days after the date for filing case briefs.\17\
Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this
proceeding must submit: (1) table of contents listing each issue; and
(2) a table of authorities.\18\ All briefs must be filed electronically
using ACCESS. An electronically filed document must be received
successfully in its entirety in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the
established deadline.
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\17\ 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).
\18\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 351.309(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.\19\ Further, we request that interested parties limit their
executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not
including citations. We intend to use the executive summaries as the
basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision
memorandum that will accompany the final determination in this
investigation. We request that interested parties include footnotes for
relevant citations in the 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).\20\
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\19\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\20\ See APO and Service Procedures.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days
after the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain
the party's name, address, and telephone number, the number of
participants, whether any participant is a foreign national, and a list
of the issues to be discussed. If a request for a hearing is made,
Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be
determined. Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and
location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.
Assessment Rates
Upon completion of this administrative review, Commerce shall
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess,
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. If the weighted-average
dumping margin for a mandatory respondent is not zero or de minimis in
the final results of this review, we will calculate an importer-
specific assessment rate on the basis of the ratio of the total amount
of dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total
entered value of such sales in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1).\21\ If the weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de
minimis in the final results of review, or if an importer-specific
assessment rate is zero or de minimis, Commerce will instruct CBP to
liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.\22\
For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the
respondents for which they did not know its merchandise was destined
for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed
entries pursuant to the reseller policy, i.e., the assessment rate for
such entries will be the all-others rate established in the
investigation if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies)
involved in the transaction.\23\
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\21\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14,
2012).
\22\ Id., 77 FR at 8102-03; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
\23\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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For the companies rescinded from this review, Halima and PPA,
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier
than 35 days after the date of publication of this notice 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
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statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 90 days of publication).
For the mandatory respondent, SeAH Vina, 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).
The final results of this review shall be the basis for the
assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by
the final results of this review and for future cash deposits of
estimated antidumping duties, where applicable.\24\
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\24\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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Pursuant to a refinement to Commerce's assessment practice, where
sales of subject merchandise exported by an individually examined
respondent were not reported in the U.S. sales data submitted by the
respondent, but the merchandise was entered into the United States
during the POR, Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate any entries of
such merchandise at the AD assessment rate for the Vietnam-wide
entity.\25\
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\25\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market
Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this
administrative review for all shipments of the subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
date of publication, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act:
(1) for the exporters listed above, the cash deposit rate will be equal
to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results
of this review, except if the rate is de minimis, in which case the
cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously-examined Vietnamese
and non-Vietnamese exporters not listed above that at the time of entry
are eligible for a separate rate based on a prior completed segment of
this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to the be the
existing exporter-specific cash deposit rate; (3) for all non-
Vietnamese exporters of subject merchandise which at the time of entry
do not have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate
applicable to the Vietnamese exporter that supplied the non-Vietnamese
exporter; and (4) for all Vietnamese exporters of subject merchandise
that have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate at the time
of entry, the cash deposit rate will be that for the Vietnam-wide
entity (i.e., 111.47 percent). These cash deposit requirements, when
imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice 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
These preliminary results of review are issued and published in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(4).
Dated: March 9, 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
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation
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