Notice2026-15997
Certain Steel Nails From the United Arab Emirates: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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August 6, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that sales of certain steel nails (steel nails) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were made at less than normal value (NV). The period of review (POR) is May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this administrative review, in part, with respect to 18 companies that had no entries of the subject merchandise during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 150 (Thursday, August 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50795-50797]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-15997]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-520-804]
Certain Steel Nails From the United Arab Emirates: Preliminary
Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2024-2025
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds
that sales of certain steel nails (steel nails) from the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) were made at less than normal value (NV). The period of
review (POR) is May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025.
Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this administrative review, in
part, with respect to 18 companies that had no entries of the subject
merchandise during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on
these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable August 6, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Olivia Woolverton or Connor Field, AD/
CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-7452 or (202)
482-3997, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 10, 2012, Commerce published the antidumping duty (AD) order
on steel nails from the UAE.\1\ On June 5, 2025, Commerce initiated an
administrative review of the Order, in accordance with section 751(a)
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), with respect to 20
producers/exporters of the subject merchandise.\2\ Commerce selected
one mandatory respondent for individual examination, Rich Well Steel
Industries LLC (Rich Well).\3\
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\1\ See Certain Steel Nails from the United Arab Emirates:
Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 27421 (May 10, 2012) (Order).
\2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 26967, 26976-77 (June 25, 2025)
(Initiation Notice).
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated August 8,
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.\4\ 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.\5\ On March 11, 2026, Commerce extended the
deadline for the preliminary results of this review to July 31,
2026.\6\
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated March 11,
2026.
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For a complete description of the events following the initiation
of this administrative review, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.\7\ 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, which 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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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Certain Steel Nails from the United Arab Emirates; 2024-2025,''
dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by the Order are steel nails from the UAE. 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.\8\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative
review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty
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 assessment rate calculated for the
POR.\10\ 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 we 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 the companies listed in Appendix II, 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, 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'').
\11\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated February 26, 2026.
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a) of the Act. Export price is calculated in accordance with
section 772 of the Act. We calculated NV in accordance with section 773
of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying these
preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rate for Non-Individually Examined Company
The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment
of a rate to apply to companies not selected for individual examination
when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review
pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to
section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for
calculating the all-others rate in a market economy investigation, for
guidance when calculating the rate for companies which were not
selected for individual examination in an administrative review.
Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is
normally an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated
weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters and
producers individually investigated, excluding any rates that are zero,
de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), or determined entirely on the
basis of facts available. Where the weighted-average dumping margin for
each of the individually examined companies is zero, de minimis, or
based entirely on facts available, section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act
provides that Commerce may use ``any reasonable method to establish the
estimated all-others rate for exporters and producers not individually
investigated, including averaging the estimated weighted-average
dumping margins determined for the exporters and producers individually
investigated.''
In this administrative review, we preliminarily calculated a
weighted-average dumping margin for Rich Well, the sole individually
examined respondent in this review. Because this estimated weighted-
average dumping margin is not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on
facts otherwise available, we are preliminarily assigning the estimated
weighted-average dumping margin calculated for Rich Well to Master
Nails and Pins Manufacturing, LLC/Middle East Manufacturing Steel LLC
(Master), the remaining company under review that was not selected for
individual examination, consistent with the guidance in section
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act.
Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that the
following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period May 1,
2024, through April 30, 2025:
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Weighted-average
Exporter/producer dumping margin
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Rich Well Steel Industries LLC...................... 1.42
Master Nails and Pins Manufacturing, LLC/Middle East 1.42
Manufacturing Steel LLC............................
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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 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 the publication of this notice.\12\ 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.\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 351.309.
\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 Procedures).
\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 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).\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 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
whether any participant is a foreign national; 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.\17\
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\17\ 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 Rich Well'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
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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.\18\ 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 Rich Well'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.\19\
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\18\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\19\ 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 Rich Well
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.\20\
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\20\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
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For Master, we will assign an assessment rate based on the review-
specific rate for the company, which is calculated as noted in the
``Rate for Non-Selected Company'' section above.
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
Rich Well and Master 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 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 4.30 percent,\21\ the all-others rate established in the LTFV
investigation. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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\21\ See Order, 77 FR at 27422.
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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 its
analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, not later than 120
days after the date of publication of this notice, 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 duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement
of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of doubled
antidumping duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213 and 19
CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: July 31, 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. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
Appendix II--Companies Rescinded From Review
1. Al Falaq Building Materials
2. Al Khashab Building Materials Co., LLC
3. Al Rafaa Star Building Materials Est
4. Al Sabbah Trading and Importing, Est
5. All Ferro Building Materials, LLC
6. Asgarali Yousuf Trading Co., LLC
7. Azymuth Consulting, LLC
8. Burj Al Tasmeem, Tr
9. Dubai Wire FZE
10. Gheewala Hardware Trading Company, LLC
11. Madar UAE
12. Mustafa Building Materials Co. (LLC)
13. New World International, LLC
14. Okzeela Star Building Materials Trading, LLC
15. Rishi International, FZCO
16. Samrat Wire Industry, LLC
17. Sea Land Contracting Trade Circle Enterprises, LLC
18. SK Metal International DMCC
[FR Doc. 2026-15997 Filed 8-5-26; 8:45 am]
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