Notice2026-09321
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
May 12, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. (Deacero) and I.N.G.E.T.E.K.N.O.S. Estructurales, S.A. de C.V. (Ingetek) (collectively, Deacero Group) sold steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), November 1, 2023, through October 31, 2024. In addition, we are rescinding the review with respect to three companies. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 12, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25859-25862]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-09321]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-201-844]
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: 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 Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. (Deacero) and I.N.G.E.T.E.K.N.O.S.
Estructurales, S.A. de C.V. (Ingetek) (collectively, Deacero Group)
sold steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico at less than
normal value during the period of review (POR), November 1, 2023,
through October 31, 2024. In addition, we are rescinding the review
with respect to three companies. We invite interested parties to
comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable May 12, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Fracke, AD/CVD Operations, Office
III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3299.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 6, 2014, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
antidumping duty (AD) order on rebar from Mexico.\1\ On November 1,
2024, we published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to
request an administrative review of the Order.\2\ On December 18, 2024,
pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act), Commerce initiated an administrative review of the Order
covering four companies.\3\
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\1\ See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Mexico: Antidumping
Duty Order, 79 FR 65925 (November 6, 2014) (Order).
\2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 89 FR 87338 (November
1, 2024).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 102856 (December 18, 2024) (Initiation
Notice).
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On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline to issue the
preliminary results in administrative reviews for which the opportunity
to request the review was published in November or December 2024, by 90
days.\4\ The opportunity notice to request this administrative review
was published on November 1, 2024.\5\ On September 22, 2025, we
extended the deadline for these preliminary results by 119 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\ Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary
results is now May 6, 2026.
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
\5\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 89 FR 87338 (November
1, 2024).
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated September
22, 2025.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\9\
A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
attached as 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/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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\9\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order:
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Mexico; 2023-2024,'' dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The product covered by this Order is rebar from Mexico. For a full
description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Rescission of Review, In Part
As noted above, we initiated this review with respect to four
companies.\10\ During the course of the review, we selected one
mandatory respondent, which included one of the named companies.\11\ As
a consequence, there are three companies upon which the review was
requested and which were not selected for individual examination.
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\10\ See Initiation Notice, 89 FR at 102860. Commerce previously
found Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. and I.N.G.E.T.E.K.N.O.S.
Estructurales, S.A. de C.V. to be affiliated, and we continue to
treat them as a single entity (collectively, Deacero Group). See
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Mexico: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 37849 (June
9, 2023) (Rebar from Mexico AR 2020-2021 Final), and accompanying
Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM) at Comment 3. Therefore, they
were listed together in the Initiation Notice. Separately, Commerce
has previously collapsed Grupo Simec S.A.B. de C.V.; Aceros
Especiales Simec Tlaxcala, S.A. de C.V.; Fundiciones de Acero
Estructurales, S.A. de C.V.; Grupo Chant, S.A.P.I. de C.V.;
Operadora de Perfiles Sigosa, S.A. de C.V.; Orge S.A. de C.V.;
Perfiles Comerciales Sigosa, S.A. de C.V.; Siderurgicos Noroeste,
S.A. de C.V.; Simec International 6 S.A. de C.V.; Simec
International 7, S.A. de C.V.; and Simec International, S.A. de C.V.
into the single entity ``Grupo Simec.'' Therefore, they were listed
together in the Initiation Notice. See Rebar from Mexico AR 2020-
2021 Final IDM at Comment 3; see also Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar
from Mexico: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 63622 (December 11, 2018), and accompanying
memorandum, ``Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for the Grupo
Simec,'' dated December 3, 2018, unchanged in Steel Concrete
Reinforcing Bar from Mexico: Final Results of the Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2016-2017, 84 FR 35599 (July 24, 2019).
\11\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated January 27,
2025.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an
administrative review when there are no reviewable suspended entries.
Based on our analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
information, three companies listed in the Initiation Notice had no
entries of subject merchandise during the POR, for all of which no
withdrawal requests were submitted. On September 26, 2025, we notified
parties of our intent to rescind this administrative review with
respect to the three companies that had no reviewable suspended entries
during the POR.\12\ No party to the proceeding provided comments on our
Intent to Rescind Memorandum. As a result, we are rescinding this
review, in part, with respect to the three companies which had no
entries during the POR.\13\ Accordingly, the companies that remain
subject to the instant review are Deacero Group.
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\12\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated September 26, 2025 (Intent to Rescind Memorandum).
\13\ See Appendix II.
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. Export price was calculated in accordance with
section 772 of the Act. Normal value was calculated in accordance with
section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology
underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the
following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the
period November 1, 2023, through October 31, 2024:
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Weighted-average
Producer/exporter dumping margin
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Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V./I.N.G.E.T.E.K.N.O.S. 8.45
Estructurales S.A.\14\.............................
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Disclosure
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\14\ There is a third company that has been collapsed into
Deacero Group. See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Mexico: Final
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022, 89 FR
40467 (May 10, 2024), and accompanying IDM at Comment 5.
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Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis
performed to interested parties in 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 the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Verification
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.307(b)(1)(iv), Commerce intends to verify
the questionnaire responses submitted by Deacero Group, because we find
that good cause for verification exists.
Public Comment
Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than seven days
after the date on which the last verification report is issued in this
administrative review.\15\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in
the case briefs, may be filed no later than five days after the date
for filing case briefs.\16\ Interested parties who submit case briefs
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rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents
listing each issue; and, (2) a table of authorities.\17\
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\15\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii)
\16\ 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).
\17\ 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.\18\ Further, we request that interested parties limit their
public 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).\19\
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\18\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\19\ See APO and Service Procedures.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via
ACCESS. 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 in the hearing will be limited to those raised
in the respective briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, parties
will be notified of the time and date for the hearing.\20\ Parties
should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing
two days before the scheduled date.
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\20\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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All submissions, including case and rebuttal briefs, as well as
hearing requests, must be filed via ACCESS.\21\ An electronically filed
document must be received successfully in its entirety in ACCESS by
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established deadline. Note that Commerce
has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the service of
documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\22\
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\21\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
\22\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, upon issuance of the
final results, Commerce shall determine, and CBP shall assess,
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review.
If a respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is above de minimis
(i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of this review, we will
calculate importer-specific ad valorem AD assessment rates based on the
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the importer's
examined sales to the total entered value of those same sales in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\23\ If a respondent has not
reported entered values, we will calculate a per-unit assessment rate
for each importer by dividing the total amount of dumping calculated
for the examined sales made to that importer by the total quantity
associated with those sales. We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review when the
importer-specific assessment rate calculated in the final results of
this review is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent). Where either a
respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or
an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties.
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\23\ In these preliminary results, Commerce applied the
assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping
Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
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In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice,
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by the
respondents for which they did not know that the merchandise was
destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate
entries not reviewed at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
The final results of this review shall be the basis for the
assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by
this review and for future deposits of estimated duties, where
applicable.\24\ Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to
CBP no earlier than 41 days after the date of publication of the final
results of this review in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19
CFR 356.8(a).
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\24\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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For the companies for which the administrative review is rescinded,
antidumping duties shall be assessed at a rate equal to the cash
deposit of estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry,
or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions
for the companies listed in Appendix II of this notice to CBP no
earlier than 41 days after the date of publication of this notice in
the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 356.8(a).
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the notice of the final results of the administrative
review for all shipments of rebar from Mexico entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of
the final results, as provided by section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) the
cash deposit rate for each company listed above will be equal to the
dumping margins established in the final results of this review, except
if the ultimate rate is de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR
351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit rates will be zero; (2)
for merchandise exported by producers or exporters not covered in this
administrative review but covered in a prior segment of the proceeding,
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate
published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in
which the producer or exporter participated; (3) if the exporter is not
a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original less-
than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation but the producer is, then the cash
deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recently
completed segment of the proceeding for the producer of the
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or
exporters will continue to be 20.58 percent, the all-others rate
established in the LTFV investigation.\25\ These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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Final Results of Review
Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), Commerce will issue the final results
of this administrative review, including the results of our analysis of
the issues raised by the parties in their case briefs, not later than
120 days after the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
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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
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR
351.213(h)(2), and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: May 6, 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 Review, In Part
V. Affiliation and Single Entity Treatment
VI. Discussion of Methodology
VII. Currency Conversion
VIII. Recommendation
Appendix II
Companies Rescinded from Administrative Review
1. Grupo Acerero S.A. de C.V.
2. Grupo Simec S.A.B. de C.V.; Aceros Especiales Simec Tlaxcala,
S.A. de C.V.; Compania Siderurgica del Pacifico S.A. de C.V.;
Fundiciones de Acero Estructurales, S.A. de C.V.; Grupo Chant,
S.A.P.I. de C.V.; Operadora de Perfiles Sigosa, S.A. de C.V.; Orge
S.A. de C.V.; Perfiles Comerciales Sigosa, S.A. de C.V.; RRLC
S.A.P.I. de C.V.; Siderugica del Occidente y Pacifico S.A. de C.V.;
Siderurgicos Noroeste, S.A. de C.V.; Simec International, S.A. de
C.V.; Simec International 6 S.A. de C.V.; Simec International 7,
S.A. de C.V.; Simec International 9 S.A. de C.V.
3. Sidertul S.A. de C.V.
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