Notice2026-08128
Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Thailand: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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Published
April 27, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that certain companies subject to this administrative review made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) March 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding the review, in part, with respect to 28 companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 80 (Monday, April 27, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22490-22493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-08128]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-549-502]
Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Thailand:
Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2024-2025
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds
that certain companies subject to this administrative review made sales
of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period
of review (POR) March 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025. Additionally,
Commerce is rescinding the review, in part, with respect to 28
companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable April 27, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Romani, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0198.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 11, 1986, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
antidumping duty (AD) order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and
tubes (CWP) from Thailand.\1\ On March 4, 2025, based on timely
requests for review, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we
published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to request an
administrative review of the Order for the POR.\2\ On April 28, 2025,
based on timely requests for an administrative review, Commerce
initiated an administrative review of the Order.\3\ On May 22, 2025,
Commerce selected Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Co., Ltd. (Saha Thai) for
individual examination as the sole mandatory respondent in this
administrative review.\4\ On March 4, 2026, Commerce notified
interested parties of our intent to rescind this administrative review
with respect to the 28 companies that had no suspended entries during
the POR.\5\
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\1\ See Antidumping Duty Order; Circular Welded Carbon Steel
Pipes and Tubes from Thailand, 51 FR 8341 (March 11, 1986) (Order).
\2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 90 FR 11155, 11156
(March 4, 2025).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 17568, 17571 (April 28, 2025).
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated May 22,
2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Intent to Partially Rescind Review,''
dated March 4, 2026 (Intent to Rescind 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\ On February 2, 2026, Commerce extended the time
limit for these preliminary results to April 8, 2026.\8\
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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.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated
February 2, 2026.
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For a complete description of the events following the initiation
of this administrative review, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.\9\ A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is
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included in Appendix I 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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\9\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes from Thailand; 2024-
2025,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by the Order are CWP from Thailand. For a
complete description of the scope of this Order, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an
administrative review, in whole or in part, when it concludes that
there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR.
Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended
entries are liquidated and AD duties are assessed at a rate determined
in the final results for the review period.\10\ Therefore, for an
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a suspended entry
that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
liquidate at the calculated AD assessment rate for the review
period.\11\
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\10\ 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).
\11\ See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co., Ltd. v. United
States, 380 F.Supp.3d 1328, 1337 (CIT 2019) (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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Based on our analysis of CBP information, we determined that 28
companies had no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the
POR. On March 4, 2026, we notified the parties of our intent to rescind
the administrative review with respect to the 28 companies listed in
Appendix II of this notice that had no suspended entries of subject
merchandise during the POR.\12\ No party commented on our Intent to
Rescind Memorandum. As a result, we are rescinding this review for the
28 companies listed in Appendix II of this notice.
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\12\ See Intent to Rescind Memorandum.
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Export
price and NV are calculated in accordance with sections 772 and 773 of
the Act, respectively. For a complete description of the methodology
underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Review-Specific Rate for Non-Examined Company
The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address what weighted-
average dumping margin to apply to companies not selected for
individual examination when Commerce limits its examination in an
administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act.
Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which
provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in an
investigation, for guidance regarding establishing an weighted-average
dumping margin for respondents that are not individually examined in an
administrative review.
Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provides that Commerce will base
the all-others rate in an investigation on the weighted average of the
estimated weighted-average dumping margins calculated for the
individually examined respondents, excluding rates that are zero, de
minimis, or based entirely on facts available. Where the weighted-
average dumping margins for each of the individually examined
respondents is zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available,
section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that Commerce may use ``any
reasonable method'' to establish the estimated all-others rate.
In this review, we have preliminarily calculated a weighted-average
dumping margin for Saha Thai that is not zero, de minimis, or based on
adverse facts available. Consistent with our practice,\13\ we have
preliminarily determined that the weighted-average dumping margin
calculated for the sole mandatory respondent, Saha Thai, will be
assigned to the sole non-examined company, TPP, consistent with section
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act.
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\13\ See Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 87 FR 60989 (October 7, 2022),
unchanged in Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the
Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 20218 (April 5, 2023).
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Preliminary Results of Review
We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted-
average dumping margins exist for the period March 1, 2024, through
February 28, 2025:
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Weighted- average
Producer or exporter dumping margin
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Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Co., Ltd. (also known as 0.64
Saha Thai Steel Pipe (Public) Company, Ltd.).......
Thai Premium Pipe Co. Ltd........................... 0.64
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations and analysis performed for
these preliminary results to interested parties 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 the Federal Register
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 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 the publication of this notice.\14\ Rebuttal briefs, limited
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to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five
days after the date for filing case briefs.\15\ Interested parties who
submit case or rebuttal briefs in this administrative review must
submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of
authorities.\16\
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\14\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\15\ 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 Final Rule).
\16\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (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.\17\ 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 public executive summaries as
the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision
memorandum that will accompany the final results in this administrative
review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for
relevant citations in the public 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).\18\
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\17\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\18\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in case and rebuttal
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance via ACCESS within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice. Hearing requests should contain: (1) the
party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of
participants and whether any participant is a foreign national; and (3)
a list of issues to be discussed. Issues raised at the hearing will be
limited to those raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. If a hearing
request is made, parties will be notified of the date and time of the
hearing.\19\ Parties should confirm the date and time of the hearing
two days before the scheduled date.
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\19\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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All submissions, including case and rebuttal briefs, as well as
hearing requests, should be filed using ACCESS.\20\ An electronically
filed document must be received successfully in its entirety by ACCESS
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established deadline.
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\20\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
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Assessment Rates
Upon completion of the final results of this administrative review,
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, Commerce shall determine,
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise covered by
this review.\21\ If Saha Thai's weighted-average dumping margin is not
zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in the final results
of this review, we will calculate importer-specific ad valorem
assessment rates 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 those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1).\22\ If Saha Thai's weighted-average dumping margin or an
importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis in the final
results of review, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate relevant
entries without regards to antidumping duties.\23\
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\21\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\22\ 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).
\23\ Id., 77 FR at 8102; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice,
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Saha Thai
for which it did not know that the merchandise was destined to the
United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those entries at the
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies)
involved in the transaction.\24\
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\24\ 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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For TPP, which was not selected for individual examination in this
review, we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries at a rate equal to the weighted-average dumping
margin determined in the final results of this review, unless that rate
is zero or de minimis, in which case we intend to instruct CBP to
liquidate relevant entries without regards to antidumping duties.
For the companies for which this review is rescinded with these
preliminary results, we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties
on all appropriate entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit rate of
estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or
withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, during the period March 1,
2024, through February 28, 2025, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(c)(l)(i). Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to
CBP for the rescinded companies no earlier than 35 days after the date
of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
The final results of this administrative 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 deposits of
estimated duties, where applicable.\25\ 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.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication in the Federal Register of the notice of final results of
administrative review for all shipments of CWP from Thailand entered,
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of
publication as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the
cash deposit rate for subject merchandise exported by Saha Thai or TPP
will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the
final results of this review (except, if that rate is de minimis within
the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), then the cash deposit rate will be
zero); (2) for merchandise exported by a company not covered in this
review but covered in a prior completed segment of the proceeding, the
cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate
published in the completed segment for the most recent period; (3) if
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review or another completed
segment of this proceeding, but the producer is, then the cash deposit
rate will be the company-specific rate established for the completed
segment for the most recent period for the producer of the merchandise;
and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will
continue to be 15.67 percent, the all-others rate established in the
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than-fair-value investigation.\26\ These cash deposit requirements,
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\26\ See Order.
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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.
Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review, including the results of its
analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, not later than 120
days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(h)(1).
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.213(h) and 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: April 8, 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 I
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Rescission of Administrative Review, In Part
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation
Appendix II
Companies Rescinded From This Administrative Review
1. Apex International Logistics
2. Aquatec Maxcon Asia
3. Asian Unity Part Co., Ltd.
4. Better Steel Pipe Company Limited
5. Bis Pipe Fitting Industry Co., Ltd.
6. Blue Pipe Steel Center Co. Ltd.
7. Chuhatsu (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
8. CSE Technologies Co., Ltd.
9. Expeditors International (Bangkok)
10. Expeditors Ltd.
11. FS International (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
12. Kerry-Apex (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
13. K Line Logistics
14. Oil Steel Tube (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
15. Otto Ender Steel Structure Co., Ltd.
16. Pacific Pipe and Pump
17. Pacific Pipe Public Company Limited
18. Panalpina World Transport Ltd.
19. Polypipe Engineering Co., Ltd.
20. Schlumberger Overseas S.A.
21. Siam Fittings Co., Ltd.
22. Siam Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.
23. Sino Connections Logistics (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
24. Thai Malleable Iron and Steel
25. Thai Oil Group
26. Thai Oil Pipe Co., Ltd.
27. Vatana Phaisal Engineering Company
28. Visavakit Patana Corp., Ltd.
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