Notice2026-11549
Acetone From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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Published
June 9, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Kumho P&B Chemicals, Inc. (KPB), a producer/exporter subject to this administrative review, made sales of acetone from the Republic of Korea (Korea) at less than normal value during the period of review (POR) March 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 110 (Tuesday, June 9, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34807-34809]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-11549]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-580-899]
Acetone From the Republic of Korea: Final Results 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) determines that
Kumho P&B Chemicals, Inc. (KPB), a producer/exporter subject to this
administrative review, made sales of acetone from the Republic of Korea
(Korea) at less than normal value during the period of review (POR)
March 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025.
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DATES: Applicable June 9, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Toni Page, AD/CVD Operations, Office
VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1398.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 13, 2026, Commerce published the preliminary results
and partial rescission of this administrative review in the Federal
Register and invited interested parties to comment.\1\ We received no
comments from interested parties on the Preliminary Results and we made
no changes to the Preliminary Results. Accordingly, no decision
memorandum accompanies this notice, and the Preliminary Results are
hereby adopted as these final results. The deadline for these final
results is June 15, 2026. Commerce conducted this administrative review
in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act).
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\1\ See Acetone from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results
and Recission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review;
2024-2025, 91 FR 6813 (February 13, 2026) (Preliminary Results), and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>2</SUP>
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\2\ See Acetone from Belgium, the Republic of South Africa, and
the Republic of Korea: Antidumping Duty Orders, 85 FR 17866 (March
31, 2020) (Order).
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The merchandise covered by the Order is all grades of liquid or
aqueous acetone. For a full description of the Order, see the
Preliminary Results PDM.
Final Results of Review
Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average
dumping margin exists for the period March 1, 2024, through February
28, 2025:
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Weighted-
average dumping
Exporter/producer margin
(percent)
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Kumho P&B Chemicals, Inc............................... 1.43
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Disclosure
Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations
of the final results of an administrative review within five days of a
public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five
days of the date of publication of the final results in the Federal
Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). However, because we
have made no changes to the Preliminary Results, there are no new
calculations to disclose.
Assessment Rates
Upon completion of the final results of this administrative review,
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b),
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.\3\ If a respondent'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 calculate an importer-
specific assessment rate based on the ratio of the total amount of
dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total
entered value of the sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\4\
If the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin or an importer-
specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis in the final results of
this review, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries
without regard to antidumping duties.\5\
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\3\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\4\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14,
2012).
\5\ Id.; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice will apply to entries
of subject merchandise during the POR produced by KPB for which it did
not know that the merchandise it sold to an intermediary (e.g., a
reseller, trading company, or exporter) was destined for the United
States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those
entries at the all-others rate (i.e., 33.10 percent),\6\ if there is no
rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\7\
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\6\ See Order, 86 FR at 66286.
\7\ 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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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.\8\ Commerce intends to issue
assessment instructions regarding KPB 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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\8\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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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 the final results
of this administrative review for all shipments of subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
date of publication of this notice as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C)
of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the individually examined
respondents listed above will be 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 reviewed or investigated companies not participating in
this review, 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 investigation but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will
be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of this
proceeding for the producer of the subject merchandise; and (4) the
cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to
be the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value
investigation (i.e., 33.10 percent).\9\ These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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\9\ See Order, 85 FR at 17866.
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Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a final 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.
Administrative Protective Order (APO)
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an APO
of their responsibility concerning the return or
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destruction of proprietary information disclosed under APO in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern
business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding.
Timely written notification of the return/destruction of APO materials
or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure
to comply with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a
sanctionable violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these final results in accordance
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(5).
Dated: June 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.
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