Notice2026-12102
Certain Steel Nails From Taiwan: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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Published
June 16, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Faithful Engineering Products Co., Ltd. (Faithful Engineering) and Top Forever Screws Co., Ltd. (Top Forever) made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. In addition, we are rescinding the review with respect to 20 companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36116-36119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-12102]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-583-854]
Certain Steel Nails From Taiwan: 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
determines that Faithful Engineering Products Co., Ltd. (Faithful
Engineering) and Top Forever Screws Co., Ltd. (Top Forever) made sales
of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period
of review (POR), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. In addition, we
are rescinding the review with respect to 20 companies. Interested
parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
DATES: Applicable June 16, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henry Wolfe, AD/CVD Operations, Office
VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0574.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 13, 2015, Commerce published the antidumping duty order on
nails from Taiwan.\1\ On June 30, 2025, Commerce published a notice of
opportunity to request an administrative review of the Order.\2\ On
July 31, 2025, the domestic interested party, Mid Continent Steel &
Wire Inc. (Mid Continent) filed a timely request for review with
respect to 22 companies.\3\ No other interested party requested an
administrative review of the Order. Pursuant to this request, on August
22, 2025, Commerce published the Initiation Notice in the Federal
Register.\4\
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\1\ See Certain Steel Nails from the Republic of Korea,
Malaysia, the Sultanate of Oman, Taiwan, and the Socialist Republic
of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders, 80 FR 39994 (July 13, 2015)
(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 27841, 27846
(June 30, 2025).
\3\ See Mid Continent's Letter, ``Request for Administrative
Review,'' dated July 31, 2025.
\4\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 41043, 41054 (August 22, 2025)
(Initiation Notice).
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In the Initiation Notice, Commerce indicated that, in the event
that it limited the respondents for individual examination in
accordance with section 777A(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), Commerce intended to select respondents for
individual examination based on U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) data.\5\ On August 25, 2025, Commerce released CBP entry data to
interested parties and provided interested parties the opportunity to
comment on the CBP data and respondent selection.\6\ No interested
parties filed comments regarding the CBP data or respondent selection.
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\5\ Id.
\6\ See Memorandum ``Release of Customs Data from U.S. Customs
and Border Protection,'' dated August 22, 2025.
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On September 11, 2025, Commerce selected Faithful Engineering and
Top Forever as mandatory respondents in this review.\7\ On September
15, 2025, Commerce issued the AD Questionnaire to Faithful Engineering
and Top Forever.\8\ However, Faithful Engineering and Top Forever did
not timely respond or request an extension of time to respond to
Commerce's AD Questionnaire by the deadlines.\9\
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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated September
11, 2025.
\8\ See Commerce's Letters, ``Request for Information,'' dated
September 15, 2025 (AD Questionnaire).
\9\ See Memorandum, ``Questionnaire Deadline for Faithful
Engineering,'' dated September 15, 2025; see also Memorandum,
``Questionnaire Deadline for Top Forever,'' dated September 15,
2025.
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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.\10\ 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
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additional 21 days.\11\ On June 8, 2026, Commerce extended the deadline
for the preliminary results of this review an additional seven
days.\12\ Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is
now June 16, 2026.
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\10\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\11\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\12\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated June 8,
2025.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is steel nails. For a full
description of the scope, see Appendix I.
Partial Rescission of Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to
rescind an administrative review of an antidumping duty order where it
concludes that there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise
during the POR.\13\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative
review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty
assessment rate for the review period.\14\ Therefore, for an
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable,
suspended entry that Commerce can instruct CBP to liquidate at the
antidumping duty assessment rate calculated for the POR.\15\
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\13\ See, e.g., Dioctyl Terephthalate from the Republic of
Korea: Rescission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2021-2022,
88 FR 24758 (April 24, 2023); see also Certain Carbon and Alloy
Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany:
Recission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR
4157 (January 24, 2023).
\14\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\15\ See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind
the instant review regarding the companies listed in Appendix II to
this notice because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of
subject merchandise from these companies during the POR and invited
interested parties to comment.\16\ 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 the companies listed in Appendix II to this
notice, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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\16\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated December 9, 2025.
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Methodology
Pursuant to sections 776(a)(1) and 776(a)(2)(A)-(C) of the Act,
Commerce is preliminarily relying upon facts otherwise available to
assign estimated dumping margins to mandatory respondents Faithful
Engineering and Top Forever because both companies were unresponsive to
our requests for information, thereby withholding necessary information
that was requested by Commerce, failing to provide the information
requested by the specified deadlines in the form and manner requested,
and significantly impeding the conduct of the review. Further, Commerce
preliminarily finds that Faithful Engineering and Top Forever failed to
cooperate by not acting to the best of their ability to comply with
requests for information and, thus, Commerce is applying an adverse
inference in selecting among the facts available, in accordance with
section 776(b) of the Act. As adverse facts available, we are assigning
these companies a rate of 78.17 percent, which is the highest rate
applied in any segment of this proceeding.\17\ Based on this
determination, there are no memoranda accompanying this notice.
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\17\ See Certain Steel Nails from Taiwan: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Partial Rescission of
Administrative Review; 2015-2016, 82 FR 36744 (August 7, 2017), and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum, unchanged in Certain
Steel Nails from Taiwan: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review and Partial Rescission of Administrative
Review; 2015-2016, 83 FR 6163 (February 13, 2018).
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Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that the
following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the
period, July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025:
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Weighted-
average
Producer or exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Faithful Engineering Products Co., Ltd...................... 78.17
Top Forever Screws Co., Ltd................................. 78.17
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Disclosure
Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations
performed in 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 the notice of preliminary results in the
Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). However,
because Commerce preliminarily applied total adverse facts available to
the two companies subject to this review, in accordance with section
776 of the Act, there are no calculations to disclose.
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.\18\ 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.\19\ 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.\20\ 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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\18\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\19\ 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).
\20\ 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 an executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs.\21\
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 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).\22\
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\21\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\22\ 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 by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days of 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 (3) a list of issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing
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will be limited to those raised in the respective case briefs. An
electronically filed hearing request must be received successfully in
its entirety by Commerce's electronic records system, ACCESS, within 30
days after the date of publication of this notice. If a request for a
hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold a hearing at a time and date
to be determined.\23\ Parties should confirm the date, time, and
location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.
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\23\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Assessment Rates
Upon issuing the final results of this review, Commerce will
determine, and U.S. CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this review.\24\ With respect to the
companies for which we have rescinded this review in part, Commerce
intends to instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries at rates equal to the cash deposit rate of estimated
antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from
warehouse, for consumption, during the POR, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(c)(1)(i).
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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).
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 companies
listed above will be that established in the final results of this
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 or another completed segment of this proceeding, but the
manufacturer is, then the cash deposit rate will be the company-
specific rate established for the completed segment for the most recent
period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be
2.16 percent, the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-
value investigation.\25\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed,
shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\25\ See Certain Steel Nails from Taiwan: Notice of Court
Decision Not in Harmony With Final Determination in Less Than Fair
Value Investigation and Notice of Amended Final Determination, 82 FR
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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.
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: June 11, 2026.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistance Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is certain steel nails
having a nominal shaft length not exceeding 12 inches. Certain steel
nails include, but are not limited to, nails made from round wire
and nails that are cut from flat-rolled steel. Certain steel nails
may be of one piece construction or constructed of two or more
pieces. Certain steel nails may be produced from any type of steel,
and may have any type of surface finish, head type, shank, point
type and shaft diameter. Finishes include, but are not limited to,
coating in vinyl, zinc (galvanized, including but not limited to
electroplating or hot dipping one or more times), phosphate, cement,
and paint. Certain steel nails may have one or more surface
finishes. Head styles include, but are not limited to, flat,
projection, cupped, oval, brad, headless, double, countersunk, and
sinker. Shank styles include, but are not limited to, smooth,
barbed, screw threaded, ring shank and fluted. Screw-threaded nails
subject to this proceeding are driven using direct force and not by
turning the nail using a tool that engages with the head. Point
styles include, but are not limited to, diamond, needle, chisel and
blunt or no point. Certain steel nails may be sold in bulk, or they
may be collated in any manner using any material.
Excluded from the scope of the Order are certain steel nails
packaged in combination with one or more non-subject articles, if
the total number of nails of all types, in aggregate regardless of
size, is less than 25. If packaged in combination with one or more
non-subject articles, certain steel nails remain subject merchandise
if the total number of nails of all types, in aggregate regardless
of size, is equal to or greater than 25, unless otherwise excluded
based on the other exclusions below.
Also excluded from the scope are certain steel nails with a
nominal shaft length of one inch or less that are (a) a component of
an unassembled article, (b) the total number of nails is sixty (60)
or less, and (c) the imported unassembled article falls into one of
the following eight groupings: (1) Builders' joinery and carpentry
of wood that are classifiable as windows, French-windows and their
frames; (2) builders' joinery and carpentry of wood that are
classifiable as doors and their frames and thresholds; (3) swivel
seats with variable height adjustment; (4) seats that are
convertible into beds (with the exception of those classifiable as
garden seats or camping equipment); (5) seats of cane, osier, bamboo
or similar materials; (6) other seats with wooden frames (with the
exception of seats of a kind used for aircraft or motor vehicles);
(7) furniture (other than seats) of wood (with the exception of (i)
medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture; and (ii) barbers'
chairs and similar chairs, having rotating as well as both reclining
and elevating movements); or (8) furniture (other than seats) of
materials other than wood, metal, or plastics (e.g., furniture of
cane, osier, bamboo or similar materials). The aforementioned
imported unassembled articles are currently classified under the
following Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
subheadings: 4418.10, 4418.20, 9401.30, 9401.40, 9401.51, 9401.59,
9401.61, 9401.69, 9403.30, 9403.40, 9403.50, 9403.60, 9403.81 or
9403.89.
Also excluded from the scope of the Order are steel nails that
meet the specifications of Type I, Style 20 nails as identified in
Tables 29 through 33 of ASTM Standard F1667 (2013 revision). Also
excluded from the scope of the Order are nails suitable for use in
powder-actuated hand tools, whether or not threaded, which are
currently classified under HTSUS subheadings 7317.00.20.00 and
7317.00.30.00.
Also excluded from the scope of the Order are nails having a
case hardness greater than or equal to 50 on the Rockwell Hardness C
scale (HRC), a carbon content greater than or equal to 0.5 percent,
a round head, a secondary reduced-diameter raised head section, a
centered shank, and a smooth
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symmetrical point, suitable for use in gas-actuated hand tools.
Also excluded from the scope of the Order are corrugated nails.
A corrugated nail is made up of a small strip of corrugated steel
with sharp points on one side.
Also excluded from the scope of the Order are thumb tacks, which
are currently classified under HTSUS subheading 7317.00.10.00.
Certain steel nails subject to the Order are currently
classified under HTSUS subheadings 7317.00.55.02, 7317.00.55.03,
7317.00.55.05, 7317.00.55.07, 7317.00.55.08, 7317.00.55.11,
7317.00.55.18, 7317.00.55.19, 7317.00.55.20, 7317.00.55.30,
7317.00.55.40, 7317.00.55.50, 7317.00.55.60, 7317.00.55.70,
7317.00.55.80, 7317.00.55.90, 7317.00.65.30, 7317.00.65.60 and
7317.00.75.00. Certain steel nails subject to the Order also may be
classified under HTSUS subheadings 7907.00.60.00, 8206.00.00.00,
7806.00.80.00, 7318.29.00.00, or other HTSUS subheadings.
While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the Order
is dispositive.
Appendix II
Companies for Which Commerce Is Rescinding the Administrative Review
1. Chunyu Factory Co., Ltd
2. Cool Shot Ltd.
3. Encore Green Co., Ltd
4. Fang Sheng Screw Co., Ltd
5. Fwang Tzay Enterprise Corp
6. Herstel Trading Limited
7. Home Value Co., Ltd.
8. Hsi Yi Enterprise Co. Ltd.
9. Hsin Ho Mfg. Co., Ltd.
10. Joker Industrial Co., Ltd.
11. Leading Hardware Corporation
12. Lu Chu Shin Yee Works Co., Ltd.
13. Panther T & H Industry Co., Ltd.
14. Perfect Seller Co., Ltd.
15. Phoenix Merchandise Inc.
16. Rexlen Corporation
17. Sanji Co., Ltd.
18. Sourcing Metrics Ltd.
19. TG Co., Ltd
20. Xiamen Huiyu Chemical Trading Co.
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