Notice2026-09464
Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From Mexico: Preliminary Results and Recission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
May 13, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that the producer/exporter subject to this reviewTubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A. (TAMSA) made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), November 1, 2023, through October 31, 2024. In addition, we are rescinding the review with respect to two companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 13, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27014-27016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-09464]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-201-856]
Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From Mexico: Preliminary
Results and Recission, 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
determines that the producer/exporter subject to this reviewTubos de
Acero de Mexico, S.A. (TAMSA) made sales of subject merchandise at less
than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), November 1,
2023, through October 31, 2024. In addition, we are rescinding the
review with respect to two companies. Interested parties are invited to
comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable May 13, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyler Weinhold, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1121.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 18, 2024, based on timely requests for review, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an administrative
review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain oil country
tubular goods (OCTG) from Mexico.\1\ On February 5, 2025, Commerce
selected Tubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A. (TAMSA) as the mandatory
respondent in this review.\2\ Due to the lapse in appropriations and
Federal Government shutdown, on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all
deadlines in administrative proceedings by 47 days.\3\ 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)
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during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24, 2025, Commerce
tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an additional 21
days.\4\ Between December 30, 2025, and February 27, 2026, we extended
the preliminary results of this review to no later than May 7, 2026.\5\
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\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 102856, 102860 (December 18, 2024).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Administrative Review of Antidumping Duty
Order on Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico; 2023-2024:
Respondent Selection,'' dated February 5, 2025.
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\5\ See Memoranda, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated December
30, 2025., ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated February 27, 2026,
and ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review,'' dated April 30, 2026; ``Extension of
Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review,'' dated February 27, 2026; and ``Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,''
dated April 30, 2026.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\6\
A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is attached 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/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods 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 the Order is OCTG from Mexico. For a
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.\7\
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\7\ See Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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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 AD order where it concludes that
there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the
POR.\8\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the
suspended entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate for the
review period.\9\ Therefore, for an administrative review to be
conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry that Commerce
can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at
the AD assessment rate calculated for the POR.\10\ Commerce notified
all interested parties of its intent to rescind the instant review
regarding Siderca S.A.I.C. and Vallourec Oil & Gas Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject
merchandise from these companies during the POR and invited interested
parties to comment.\11\ No party commented on this memorandum. In the
absence of any suspended entries of subject merchandise from these
companies during the POR, we are rescinding this administrative review
for Siderca S.A.I.C. and Vallourec Oil & Gas Mexico, S.A. de C.V., in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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\8\ 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).
\9\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\10\ See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
\11\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated January 8, 2026.
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Constructed
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 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
Exporter/producer dumping
margin
(percent)
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Tubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A.............................. 1.62
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose the calculations and analysis
performed to interested parties for these preliminary results within
five days of 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
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 publication of this notice.\12\ 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.\13\ Interested parties who
submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit:
(1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of
authorities.\14\ 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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\12\ See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements).
\13\ 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).
\14\ 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.\15\ 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 of 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).\16\
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\15\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\16\ 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 must submit a written request to the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via
ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice. 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 case briefs. If a request for a hearing
is made, parties will be notified of the time and
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date for the hearing.\17\ Parties should confirm by telephone the date,
time, and location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.
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\17\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Assessment Rates
Upon issuance of the final results, Commerce shall determine, and
CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered
by this review. 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.\18\
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\18\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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If TAMSA's weighted-average dumping margin for a mandatory
respondent is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in
the final results of this review, Commerce intends to 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 those sales. Where we do not have
entered values for all U.S. sales to a particular importer, we will
calculate an importer-specific, per-unit assessment rate on the basis
of the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the
importer's examined sales to the total quantity of those sales.\19\ To
determine whether an importer-specific, per-unit assessment rate is de
minimis, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we also will
calculate an importer-specific ad valorem ratio based on estimated
entered values. If TAMSA's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or
de minimis or where an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de
minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without
regard to antidumping duties.\20\
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\19\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\20\ Id., 77 FR at 8102-03; 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 TAMSA for
which it did not know that the merchandise was destined for the United
States, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate those entries at the
all-others rate calculated in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV)
investigation if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies)
involved in the transaction.\21\
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\21\ For a full description of this practice, see Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping
Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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For Siderca S.A.I.C. and Vallourec Oil & Gas Mexico, S.A. de C.V.,
for which this administrative review is rescinded, Commerce will
instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries.
Antidumping duties shall be assessed at rates equal to the cash deposit
rate for 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 these rescission
instructions to CBP no earlier than 41 days after the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP regarding
TAMSA, Siderca S.A.I.C., and Vallourec Oil & Gas Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
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). 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).
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the company
listed above will that established in the final results of this
administrative review, except if the rate is less than 0.50 percent
and, therefore, de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1),
in which case the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously
investigated or reviewed companies not covered by this review, the cash
deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific cash deposit rate
published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in
which the company participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm
covered in this review, a prior review, or the LTFV investigation, but
the manufacturer is, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate
established in the most recent segment for the manufacturer of the
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers
or exporters will continue to be 44.93 percent, the all-others rate
established in the LTFV investigation.\22\ These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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\22\ See Order, 87 FR at 70786.
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Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review, including the results of our
analysis of issues raised by the parties in any written briefs, within
120 days of publication of these preliminary results in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(h)(1).
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
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing 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 and/or countervailing
duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping
duties, and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the
amount of the countervailing duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of review
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(4).
Dated: May 7, 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
IV. Discussion of Methodology
V. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
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