Notice2026-16009
Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin From the Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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Published
August 6, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that OCTAL SAOC FZC (OCTAL), the mandatory respondent in this administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on polyethylene terephthalate resin (PET resin) from the Sultanate of Oman (Oman), did not sell subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results of this administrative review.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 150 (Thursday, August 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50780-50782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-16009]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-523-810]
Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin From the Sultanate of Oman:
Preliminary 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) preliminarily
determines that OCTAL SAOC FZC (OCTAL), the mandatory respondent in
this administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on
polyethylene terephthalate resin (PET resin) from the Sultanate of Oman
(Oman), did not sell subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV)
during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025.
Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results of
this administrative review.
DATES: Applicable August 6, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dylan Hill, AD/CVD Operations, Office
IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1197, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 6, 2016, Commerce published the AD order on PET resin from
Oman in the Federal Register.\1\ On May 5,
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2025, Commerce notified interested parties of an opportunity to request
an administrative review of the Order covering the POR.\2\ Based on
timely requests for review, in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), on June 25, 2025,
Commerce initiated an administrative review of the Order with respect
to OCTAL covering the POR.\3\
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\1\ See Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from Canada,
the People's Republic of China, India, and the Sultanate of Oman:
Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination (Sultanate of
Oman) and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 27979 (May 6, 2016)
(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 18692 (May 5,
2025).
\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 26967, 26973 (June 25, 2025)
(Initiation).
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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 24, 2026, Commerce extended the
deadline for these preliminary results of review until 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 24,
2026.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the accompanying 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. 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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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from the Sultanate of Oman;
2024-2025,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this
notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is PET resin having an
intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.70, but not more than 0.88,
deciliters per gram. For a full description of the scope of the Order,
see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) the Act. In conducting the review, Commerce calculated
export and constructed export prices and NV in accordance with sections
772 and 773 of the Act, respectively. For a full description of the
methodology underlying the preliminary results of this review,
including our reliance, in part, on facts otherwise available with
adverse inferences pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act, see
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
We preliminarily determine that the following 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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OCTAL SAOC FZC............................................. 0.00
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations for the preliminary
results of review to parties to the proceeding within five days of any
public announcement of the preliminary results or, if there is no
public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register in accordance with 19 CFR
351.224(b).
Verification
DAK Americas LLC, Indorama Ventures USA, Inc., and Nan Ya Plastics
Corporation, America (collectively, the petitioners) requested that
Commerce verify the information submitted by OCTAL in this
administrative review, pursuant to 19 CFR 307(b)(1)(iv), if Commerce
does not conduct an on-site verification of OCTAL in the 2023-2024
administrative review of the Order.\8\ Commerce verified the
information submitted by OCTAL in the 2023-2024 administrative review
of the Order \9\ and the petitioners did not contend that there was
good cause to verify the information submitted by OCTAL in this
administrative pursuant to section 782(i)(3)(B) of the Act. Therefore,
the petitioners' request does not provide a basis for verification.
However, pursuant to 19 CFR 307(b)(1)(iv), Commerce may verify the
information submitted by OCTAL if it subsequently determines that there
is good cause for verification.
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\8\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Petitioners' Verification
Request,'' dated October 3, 2025.
\9\ See Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin From the Sultanate of
Oman: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-
2024, 91 FR 28554 (May 18, 2026).
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Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.\10\ 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 in the Federal
Register. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs,
may be filed not later than five days after the due date for filing
case briefs.\11\ 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.\12\ 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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\10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
\11\ 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).
\12\ 12 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.\13\ 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).\14\
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\13\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\14\ 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 in the Federal Register. 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 at the hearing.
Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in the
case and rebuttal briefs. If a hearing is requested, Commerce will
announce the date and time of the hearing. Parties should confirm the
date and time of the hearing two days before the scheduled hearing
date.
Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final
results of this administrative review, which will include the results
of its analysis of issues raised in any briefs, within 120 days of
publication of these preliminary results of review in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.\15\
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\15\ See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act; see also 19 CFR
351.213(h)(1).
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Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, Commerce will
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess,
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise
covered by this review in accordance with the final results of the
review.\16\ We will calculate importer-specific ad valorem assessment
rates for OCTAL, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1),\17\ by
dividing the total amount of dumping calculated for all reviewed U.S.
sales to an importer by the total entered value of the merchandise sold
to the importer.\18\ Where either OCTAL's ad valorem weighted-average
dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific ad
valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis,\19\ we will instruct CBP
to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping
duties.
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\16\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
\17\ We applied the assessment rate calculation method adopted
in Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average
Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
\18\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\19\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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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).
Pursuant to a refinement to Commerce's assessment practice, where
OCTAL did not report a sale of subject merchandise in its U.S. sales
database that it produced or exported, but the merchandise was entered
into the United States for consumption during the POR, Commerce will
instruct CBP to liquidate any entries of such merchandise at the all-
others rate (in this case 7.62 percent) \20\ if there is no rate for
the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\21\
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\20\ See Order, 81 FR at 27982.
\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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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be in effect for all
shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the date of publication of the notice of
the final results of this administrative review in the Federal
Register, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the
cash deposit rate for OCTAL will be equal to the weighted-average
dumping margin established for the company in the final results of this
review, except if the weighted-average dumping margin is less than 0.50
percent, and, therefore, de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR
351.106(c)(1), the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously
investigated or reviewed companies that are not covered by this review,
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company's cash deposit
rate from the most recently completed segment of the proceeding in
which it was examined; (3) if the exporter is not covered by this
review, and does not have a cash deposit rate from a completed segment
of this proceeding, but the producer of the subject merchandise does
have a cash deposit rate, then the cash deposit rate will be the
producer's cash deposit rate from the most recently completed segment
of the proceeding in which it was examined; and (4) the cash deposit
rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be 7.62
percent, the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-value
investigation in this proceeding.\22\ These cash deposit requirements,
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\22\ See Order, 81 FR at 27982.
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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) 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 351.213(h)(2) and 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--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Application of Facts Available and use of Adverse Inferences
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation
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