Notice2026-07465
Silicon Metal From Angola and the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Antidumping Duty Orders
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Published
April 16, 2026
Issuing agencies
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) orders on silicon metal from Angola and the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos).
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 73 (Thursday, April 16, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20410-20412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-07465]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-762-001, A-553-001]
Silicon Metal From Angola and the Lao People's Democratic
Republic: Antidumping 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) orders on
silicon metal from Angola and the Lao People's Democratic Republic
(Laos).
DATES: Applicable April 16, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Doyle (Angola) or Caroline
Carroll (Laos), AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482-5882 or (202) 482-4948, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 23, 2026, Commerce published its affirmative final
determinations in the less than fair value (LTFV) investigations of
silicon metal from Angola and Laos, in accordance with sections 735(d)
and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).\1\ On April
6, 2026, pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified
Commerce of its final affirmative determinations that an industry in
the United States is materially injured by reason of dumped imports of
silicon metal from Angola and Laos, within the meaning of section
735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.\2\
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\1\ See Silicon Metal from Angola: Final Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Classification of
Angola as a Non-Market Economy, 91 FR 8419 (February 23, 2026); see
also Silicon Metal from the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Final
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
Classification of the Lao People's Democratic Republic as a Non-
Market Economy, 91 FR 8407 (February 23, 2026).
\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determination,'' dated April 6, 2026.
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Scope of the Orders
The product covered by these orders is silicon metal from Angola
and Laos. For a complete description of the scope of the orders, see
the appendix to this notice.
AD Orders
As noted above, on April 6, 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 LTFV imports
of silicon metal from Angola and Laos.\3\ Therefore, in accordance with
sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce is issuing these AD
orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of silicon metal from
Angola and Laos are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated
entries of such merchandise from Angola and Laos, entered or withdrawn
from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment of
antidumping duties.
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\3\ Id.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act,
Commerce intends to 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 (NV) of the merchandise exceeds
the export price (EP) (or constructed export price (CEP)) of the
merchandise on all relevant entries of silicon metal from Angola and
Laos. Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of
silicon metal from Angola and Laos entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after September 30, 2025, the date of
publication of the LFTV Preliminary Determinations,\4\ but will not
include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional
measures period and before publication of the ITC's final injury
determination, as further described below.
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\4\ See Silicon Metal from Angola: Preliminary Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 90 FR 46810
(September 30, 2025), corrected by Silicon Metal from Angola:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value; Correction, 90 FR 52913 (November 24, 2025); see also Silicon
Metal from the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Preliminary
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 90 FR
46807 (September 30, 2025) (collectively, LFTV Prelim
Determinations).
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
Except as noted in the ``Provisional Measures'' section of this
notice, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension
of liquidation of silicon metal from Angola and Laos, 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 736(a)(1) of the Act, antidumping duties
on each entry of subject merchandise equal to the amount by which the
NV of the merchandise exceeds the EP (or CEP) of the merchandise. 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 indicated in
the table below. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication in
the Federal Register of the notice of the ITC's final
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affirmative injury determination, CBP will require, at the same time as
importers would normally deposit estimated customs duties on subject
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the table
below. The relevant rate for the Angola-wide and Laos-wide entities, as
applicable, apply to all producers and exporters not specifically
listed. These cash deposit requirements will remain in effect until
further notice.
To determine the cash deposit rate where there is a companion
countervailing duty (CVD) proceeding, Commerce normally adjusts the
estimated weighted-average dumping margin by the amount of export
subsidies countervailed in the CVD proceeding, when CVD provisional
measures are in effect. Accordingly, where Commerce has made a final
affirmative determination for countervailable export subsidies,
Commerce offsets the estimated weighted-average dumping margin by the
appropriate CVD rate. However, because Commerce based its final CVD
determination for Laos on adverse facts available, we do not find that
there are any export subsidies in the companion CVD investigation to
use as an offset for the Laos AD cash deposit rates.\5\
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\5\ See Silicon Metal from the Lao People's Democratic Republic:
Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 91 FR 8425,
8426 (February 23, 2026).
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Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
The estimated weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:
Angola
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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PC Silicon Co. Limited...................................... * 68.45
Wanhongda International Limited............................. * 68.45
All Others.................................................. 68.45
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Laos
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Lao Silicon Co., Ltd........................................ * 94.44
All Others.................................................. 94.44
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Provisional Measures
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 investigations, Commerce published the LFTV
Preliminary Determinations on September 30, 2025. Thus, the four-month
period beginning on the date of the publication of the LFTV Preliminary
Determinations ended on January 27, 2026. As a result, entries of
silicon metal from Angola and Laos made on or after January 28, 2026,
are not subject to the assessment of antidumping duties.
Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act and our
practice, Commerce instructed CBP to terminate the suspension of
liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties,
unliquidated entries of silicon metal from Angola and Laos entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after January 28, 2026,
the day on which the provisional measures expired. 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
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\6\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the
Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\7\ 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.
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\6\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20,
2021) (Final Rule).
\7\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
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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.'' \8\
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\8\ 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,\9\ 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.
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\9\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206.
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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 at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>.
Special Instructions for the Petitioner 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.'' \10\
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Accordingly, as stated above, the petitioners \11\ and foreign
governments 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. 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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\10\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
\11\ The petitioners in these proceedings are Ferroglobe USA,
Inc. and Mississippi Silicon LLC (collectively, the petitioners).
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the AD orders with respect to silicon metal
from Angola and Laos, pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. Interested
parties can find a list of AD and CVD orders currently in effect at
<a href="https://www.trade.gov/datavisualization/adcvd-proceedings">https://www.trade.gov/datavisualization/adcvd-proceedings</a>.
These AD orders are published in accordance with section 736(a) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: April 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.
Appendix
Scope of the Orders
The scope of these orders covers all forms and sizes of silicon
metal, including silicon metal powder. Silicon metal contains at
least 85.00 percent but less than 99.99 percent silicon, and less
than 4.00 percent iron, by actual weight. Semiconductor grade
silicon (merchandise containing at least 99.99 percent silicon by
actual weight and classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States (HTSUS) subheading 2804.61.0000) is excluded from
the scope of these orders.
Silicon metal is currently classifiable under subheadings
2804.69.1000 and 2804.69.5000 of the HTSUS. While the HTSUS numbers
are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written
description of the scope remains dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2026-07465 Filed 4-15-26; 8:45 am]
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