Notice2026-15877
Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated Flat-Rolled Steel Products From Japan: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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August 5, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. (Toyo Kohan) did not make sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. In addition, we are rescinding the review with respect to 14 companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 5, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50517-50519]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-15877]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-588-869]
Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated Flat-Rolled Steel Products From
Japan: 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 Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. (Toyo Kohan) did not make sales of
subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of
review (POR), May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. In addition, we are
rescinding the review with respect to 14 companies. Interested parties
are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
DATES: Applicable August 5, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Beuley, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3269.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 25, 2025, 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 order on diffusion-annealed, nickel-
plated flat-rolled steel products (nickel-plated steel products) from
Japan.\1\ On July 28, 2025, Commerce selected Toyo Kohan as the
mandatory respondent in this review.\2\
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\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 26967 (June 25, 2025); see also
Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated Flat-Rolled Steel Products from
Japan: Antidumping Duty Order, 79 FR 30816 (May 29, 2014) (Order).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Identification,'' dated July
18, 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,\3\ and, 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.\4\ On March 10, 2026, we extended the preliminary results of this
review.\5\ Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is
now July 30, 2026.
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\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 Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for the Preliminary
Results of the 2024-2025 Antidumping Administrative Review,'' dated
March 10, 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 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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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated Flat-Rolled Steel Products from
Japan; 2024-2025,'' dated concurrently withm and hereby adopted by,
this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the Order is nickel-plated steel
products from Japan. For a complete description of the scope of the
Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rescission 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 antidumping duty order where it
concludes that there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise
during the POR.\7\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative
review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty
assessment rate for the review period.\8\ 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.\9\ Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to
rescind the instant review regarding the companies listed in Appendix
II because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject
merchandise from these companies during the POR and invited interested
parties to comment.\10\ 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, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(d)(3).
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\7\ 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).
\8\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\9\ See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co. v. United States,
380 F.Supp.3d 1328, 1337 (CIT 2019), at 12 (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, 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'').
\10\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated August 11, 2025.
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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). 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 May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025:
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Weighted -
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd........................................ 0.00
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis
performed to interested parties for these preliminary results within
five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the
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date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR
351.224(b).
Verification
On September 12, 2025, Thomas Steel Strip Corporation, a domestic
interested party, requested that Commerce conduct verification of Toyo
Kohan's responses.\11\ Accordingly, in June 2026, as provided in
section 782(i)(3) of the Act, we verified Toyo Kohan's information
relied upon for the preliminary results of this review.\12\
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\11\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Request for Verification,''
dated September 12, 2025.
\12\ We intend to issue the verification report after the
issuance of these preliminary results.
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Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance no later than seven
days after the date on which the verification report is issued in this
review.\13\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case
briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing
case briefs.\14\ 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.\15\ 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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\13\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for
general filing requirements).
\14\ 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).
\15\ 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.\16\ 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).\17\
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\16\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\17\ 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 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 (3) a list of issues to be discussed. Oral presentations at the
hearing will be limited to issues raised in the briefs. If a request
for a hearing is made, Commerce will inform parties of the scheduled
date for the hearing.\18\
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\18\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and CBP shall assess,
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in
accordance with the final results of this review.
If Toyo Kohan'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, Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific assessment
rates on the basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping
calculated for each importer's examined sales to 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 Toyo Kohan's weighted-
average dumping margin is zero or de minimis or where an importer-
specific ad valorem 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\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2); see also Antidumping Proceeding:
Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment
Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR
8101, 8103 (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 Toyo
Kohan 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 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 the companies listed in Appendix II for which the review is
being 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 rescission instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days
after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP regarding
Toyo Kohan 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 Toyo Kohan 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
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which the company participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm
covered in this review, or the LTFV investigation, but the manufacturer
is, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for 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 45.42 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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Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) 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 of review
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19
CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: July 30, 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. Discussion of the Methodology
V. Particular Market Situation
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation
Appendix II
Companies With No Reviewable Entries Rescinded From Review
1. Higuchi Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
2. IHI Corporation
3. JFE Shoji Corporation
4. Kohan Shoji Co., Ltd.
5. Marubeni-Itochu Steel, Inc.
6. Nichias Corporation
7. Nikken Lath Kogyo Co., Ltd.
8. Nippon Steel Trading Co., Ltd.; Nippon Steel Trading Corporation
9. Oneda Electric Corporation
10. Panasonic Operational Excellence Co., Ltd.
11. Rinnai Corporation
12. Sumisho Metalex Corporation
13. Tokyo Metal Resources Co., Ltd.
14. Tomiyasu & Co., Ltd
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