Notice2026-06649
Float Glass Products From the People's Republic of China and Malaysia: Countervailing Duty Orders
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Published
April 6, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing countervailing duty (CVD) orders on float glass products (float glass) from the People's Republic of China (China) and Malaysia.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 65 (Monday, April 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17253-17256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-06649]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-570-189, C-557-833]
Float Glass Products From the People's Republic of China and
Malaysia: 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 U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing countervailing duty (CVD) orders
on float glass products (float glass) from the People's Republic of
China (China) and Malaysia.
DATES: Applicable April 6, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nathan James at (202) 482-5305 and
Kelsie Hohenberger at (202) 482-2517 (China), and Benjamin Nathan at
(202) 482-3834 and Mira Warrier (202) 482-8031 (Malaysia), 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 777(i) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act) on February 9, 2026, Commerce published in
the Federal Register its affirmative final determinations in the
countervailing duty investigations of float glass from
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China and Malaysia.\1\ On March 26, 2026, the ITC notified Commerce of
its final affirmative determinations, pursuant to sections
705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the Act, that an industry in the United
States is materially injured by reason of subsidized imports of float
glass from China and Malaysia.\2\
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\1\ See Float Glass Products from the People's Republic of
China: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 91 FR
5708 (February 9, 2026) (China Final Determination); see also Float
Glass Products from Malaysia: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty
Determination, 91 FR 5720 (February 9, 2026) (Malaysia Final
Determination); and Float Glass Products from Malaysia: Final
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination; Correction, 91 FR
9239 (February 25, 2026).
\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determinations,'' dated March 26, 2026 (ITC Notification Letter).
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Scope of the Orders
The product covered by these orders is float glass from China and
Malaysia. For a full description of the scope of these orders, see the
appendix to this notice.
Countervailing Duty Orders
Based on the above-referenced affirmative final determinations by
the ITC that an industry in the United States is materially injured by
reason of subsidized imports of float glass from China and Malaysia,\3\
in accordance with section 705(c)(2) and 706 of the Act, Commerce is
issuing these CVD orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of
float glass from China and Malaysia are materially injuring a U.S.
industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, are subject to the
assessment of countervailing duties.
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\3\ Id.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce
will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon
further instruction by Commerce, countervailing duties on unliquidated
entries of float glass from China and Malaysia. With the exception of
entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures
period and before the publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury
determinations, as further described below, countervailing duties will
be assessed on unliquidated entries of float glass from China and
Malaysia entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after May 19, 2025, the date of publication of the Preliminary
Determinations in the Federal Register.\4\
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\4\ See Float Glass Products from the People's Republic of
China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty
Determination, 90 FR 21281 (May 19, 2025), and accompanying
Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM); and Float Glass Products from
Malaysia: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination
and Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty
Determination, 90 FR 21278 (May 19, 2025), and accompanying PDM
(collectively, Preliminary Determinations).
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
In accordance with section 706 of the Act, Commerce will direct CBP
to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of float glass from China
and Malaysia, effective the date of publication of the ITC's notice of
final determinations in the Federal Register, and to assess, upon
further instruction by Commerce pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the
Act, countervailing duties for each entry of the subject merchandise in
an amount based on the net countervailable subsidy rates for the
subject merchandise. On or after the date of publication of the ITC's
final injury determinations in the Federal Register, CBP must require,
at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated duties
on this merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates noted below.
These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until
further notice.
Estimated Countervailable Subsidy Rates
The estimated countervailable subsidy rates are as follows; the
all-others rate applies to all producers or exporters not specifically
listed below:
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\5\ Commerce has found the following companies to be cross-owned
with Xinyi Group (Glass) Company Limited: (1) Xinyi Special Glass
(Jiangmen) Company Limited; (2) Xinyi Glass (Chongqing) Company
Limited; (3) Xinyi Glass (Guangxi) Company Limited; (4) Xinyi
Ultrathin Glass (Dongguan) Co., Ltd; (5) Xinyi Electronic Glass
(Wuhu) Co., Ltd.; (6) Xinyi Glass (Hainan) Co., Ltd.; (7) Xinyi
Glass (Yingkou) Co., Ltd.; (8) Xinyi Energy Smart (Sichuan) Co.,
Ltd; (9) Xinyi Glass (Wuhu) Company Limited; (10) Xinyi Glass
(Tianjin) Co., Ltd.; (11) Xinyi Glass (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.; (12)
Xinyi Glass Engineering (Dongguan) Co., Ltd; and (13) Xinyi Glass
(Bozhou) Co., Ltd. See China Final Determination, 91 FR at 5709,
n.15.
\6\ Commerce has found the following company to be cross-owned
with Jinjing Technology Malaysia Sdn. Bhd: Jinjing Silicon
Technology Sdn. Bhd. See Malaysia Final Determination, 91 FR at
5721, n.12.
\7\ Commerce has found the following company to be cross-owned
with Xinyi Energy Smart (M) Sdn. Bhd: Xin Yun Logistics (Malaysia)
Sdn. Bhd. See Malaysia Final Determination, 91 FR at 5721, n.13.
China
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Subsidy rate (percent
Company ad valorem)
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Xinyi Group (Glass) Company Limited \5\........ 19.75
Shandong Jinjing Science and Technology Stock * 113.34
Co., Ltd......................................
Hubei Sanxia New Building Materials Co., Ltd... * 113.34
Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington Glass Group Co., * 113.34
Ltd. (SYP)....................................
All Others..................................... 19.75
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Malaysia
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Subsidy rate (percent
Company ad valorem)
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Jinjing Technology Malaysia Sdn. Bhd \6\....... 17.25
Xinyi Energy Smart (M) Sdn. Bhd \7\............ 28.45
NSG (Malaysian Sheet Glass).................... * 101.99
All Others..................................... 27.32
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
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Provisional Measures
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. In the underlying investigations,
Commerce published the Preliminary Determinations on May 19, 2025.\8\
Therefore, entries of float glass from China and Malaysia made on or
after September 16, 2025, and prior to the date of publication of the
ITC's final determinations in the Federal Register, are not subject to
the assessment of countervailing duties due to Commerce's
discontinuation of the suspension of liquidation.
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\8\ See Preliminary Determinations.
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In accordance with section 703(d) of the Act, Commerce instructed
CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate,
without regard to countervailing duties, certain unliquidated entries
of float glass from China and Malaysia entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after September 16, 2025, the date on
which the provisional CVD measures expired, until and through the day
preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final injury
determinations in the Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation and
the collection of cash deposits will resume on the date of publication
of the ITC final injury determinations in the Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service List
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\9\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the
Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\10\ 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.\11\
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\9\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20,
2021) (Final Rule).
\10\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
\11\ 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
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.'' \12\
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\12\ 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, 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 inquiry 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.
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.'' \13\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioners and foreign governments should submit their
initial entry of appearance after publication of this notice in order
to appear in the first annual inquiry service list. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.225(n)(3), the petitioners and foreign governments 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 foreign governments 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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\13\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the CVD orders with respect to float glass
from China and Malaysia pursuant to section 706(a) of the Act.
Interested parties can find a list of 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 CVD orders are published in accordance with section 706(a) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: April 1, 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 scope of the orders covers float glass products (FGP), which
are articles of soda-lime-silica glass that are manufactured by
floating a continuous strip of molten glass over a smooth bath of
tin (or another liquid metal with a density greater than molten
glass), cooling the glass in an annealing lehr, and cutting it to
appropriate dimensions. For purposes of the orders, float glass
products have an actual thickness of at least 2.0 mm (0.0787 inches)
and an actual surface area of at least 0.37 square meters (4.0
square feet).
The country of origin of each float glass product is determined
by the location where the soda-lime-silica glass is first
manufactured by floating a continuous strip of molten glass over a
smooth bath of tin and cooling the glass in an annealing lehr,
regardless of the location of any downstream finishing or
fabrication operations.
Prior to being subjected to further treatment, finishing, or
fabrication, float glass products meet the requirements of Type I
under ASTM-C1036 of the American Society for Testing and Materials
(ASTM).
Float glass products may be clear, stained, tinted, or coated
with one or more materials. Examples of coated float glass products
include Low-E architectural glass (i.e., glass
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with a low emissivity coating to limit the penetration of radiant
heat energy) and frameless mirrors (i.e., flat glass with a silver,
aluminum, or other reflective layer) such as mirror stock sheet.
Float glass products may be annealed, chemically strengthened,
heat strengthened, or tempered to achieve a desired surface
compression, pursuant to ASTM-C1048, ASTM-C1422/C1422M, or other
similar specifications.
Float glass products include tub and shower enclosures (i.e.,
doors and panels) made of tempered glass, which may be sold with
attached or unattached hardware. In such cases, the scope covers
only the tempered glass, to the exclusion of any non-glass hardware.
The only float glass product assemblies included within the
scope are: (1) articles consisting of two of more sheets of float
glass that are bonded together using a polymer interlayer (i.e.,
laminated glass); (2) insulating glass units (IGUs), which consist
of two or more sheets of float glass separated by a spacer material
and hermetically sealed together at the edge in order to create a
thermal barrier using air or one or more gases but excluding any
non-float glass components (other than the spacer and insulating
materials) that may be mounted within the space between sheets of
float glass (e.g., blinds, wrought iron cores, and camed patterned
glass), as such non-float glass components are deemed outside the
scope and not subject to duties; and (3) LED mirrors (i.e., float
glass mirrors with one or more light-emitting diodes attached to or
integrated with the mirror, as well as framed float glass mirrors
with one or more light-emitting diodes attached to or integrated
with the mirror or the mirror frame, but without other electronic
functionality such as digital or video displays or audio circuitry).
Float glass products covered by the scope may meet one or more
of the ASTM-C162, ASTM-C1036, ASTM-C1048, ASTM-C1172, ASTM-C1349,
ASTM-C1376, ASTM-C1422/C1422M, ASTM-C1464, ASTM-C1503, ASTM-C1651,
ASTM-E1300, and ASTM-E2190 specifications, definitions, and/or
standards.
Float glass products may be further worked, including, but not
limited to, operations such as: cutting; beveling; edging; notching;
drilling; etching; bending; curving; chipping; embossing; engraving;
surface grinding; or polishing; and sandblasting (i.e., using high
velocity air to stream abrasive particles and thereby impart a
frosted aesthetic to the glass surface). A float glass product which
undergoes further work remains within the scope so long as the soda-
lime-silica glass originally satisfied the requirements of ASTM-
C1036 Type I and was first manufactured in a subject country,
regardless of where it is further worked.
Excluded from the scope are: (1) wired glass (i.e., glass with a
layer of wire mesh embedded within); (2) patterned flat glass (i.e.,
rolled glass with a pattern impressed on one or both sides) meeting
the requirements of Type II under ASTM-C1036, including greenhouse
glass and patterned solar glass (i.e., photovoltaic glass with a
textured surface); (3) safety glazing materials for vehicles
certified to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard
Z26.1; (4) vacuum insulating glass (VIG) units, which consist of two
or more sheets of float glass separated by a spacer material, with
at least one hermetically sealed compartment that uses a gas-free
vacuum as a thermal barrier; (5) framed mirrors without any LEDs
integrated with the mirror or the mirror frame; (6) unframed ``over-
the-door'' mirrors that are ready for use as imported without
undergoing after importation any processing, finishing, or
fabrication; and (7) heat-strengthened washing machine lid glass
with an actual surface area less than 6.0 square feet (0.56 square
meters).
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are: (1) soda-lime-
silica glass containing less than 0.01 percent iron oxide by weight,
annealed with a surface compression less than 3,500 pounds per
square inch (PSI), having a transparent conductive oxide base
coating (e.g., tin oxide), and with an actual thickness less than or
equal to 4.0 mm (0.1575 inches) (i.e., ``coated solar glass''); and
(2) heat treated soda-lime-silica glass with a surface compression
between 3,500 and 10,000 PSI, containing two or more drilled holes,
and having an actual thickness less than 2.5 mm (0.0984 inches)
(i.e., ``clear back solar glass''). Solar glass products (also known
as photovoltaic glass) are designed to facilitate the conversion of
solar energy into electricity.
Also excluded are metal-camed glass products (i.e., panels of
glass joined together with metal banding) where the constituent
glass panels would otherwise be excluded by reason of their size
(e.g., an actual surface area less than 0.37 square meters, or 4.0
square feet) and/or by reason of consisting of patterned flat glass
(i.e., rolled glass with a pattern impressed on one or both sides)
meeting the requirements of Type II under ASTM-C1036.
Also excluded from the scope of the orders are any products
already covered by the scope of any extant antidumping and/or
countervailing duty orders, including Aluminum Extrusions from the
People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order, 76 FR 30650 (May
26, 2011), and Aluminum Extrusions from the People's Republic of
China: Countervailing Duty Order, 76 FR 30653 (May 26, 2011).
The products subject to the orders are currently classifiable
under subheadings 7005.10.8000, 7005.21.1010, 7005.21.1030,
7005.21.2000, 7005.29.1810, 7005.29.1850, 7005.29.2500,
7007.29.0000, 7008.00.0000, 7009.91.5010, 7009.91.5095, and
7009.92.5010 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS). Products subject to the orders may also enter under HTSUS
subheadings 7006.00.4010, 7006.00.4050, 7007.19.0000, 7013.99.2000,
7013.99.9090, 7610.10.0030, and 7610.90.0080. Although the HTSUS
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the
written description of the scope of the orders is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2026-06649 Filed 4-3-26; 8:45 am]
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