Notice2026-18495
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From Malaysia: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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September 10, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that producers/exporters subject to this review made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), June 1, 2024, through May 31, 2025. In addition, we are rescinding the review with respect to Southern Steel Sdn. Bhd. (Southern Steel). Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 174 (Thursday, September 10, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57542-57545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-18495]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-557-819]
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From Malaysia: 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 producers/exporters subject to this review made sales
of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period
of review (POR), June 1, 2024, through May 31, 2025. In addition, we
are rescinding the review with respect to Southern Steel Sdn. Bhd.
(Southern Steel). Interested parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results of review.
DATES: Applicable September 10, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colin Thrasher, 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) 482-3004.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 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 prestressed concrete wire
strand (PC strand) from Malaysia.\1\ On August 26, 2025, Commerce
selected Kiswire Sdn. Bhd. (Kiswire) and Southern PC Steel Sdn. Bhd.
(Southern) as the mandatory respondents in this review.\2\ This review
covers four producers/exporters of subject merchandise.\3\ Commerce is
rescinding the review in part with respect to Southern Steel because it
had no entries in the CBP data during the POR.\4\
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\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FF 35268 (July 25, 2025) (Initiation
Notice); see also Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from
Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, and
Ukraine: Antidumping Duty Orders, 86 FR 29998 (June 4, 2021)
(Order).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated August 26,
2025.
\3\ See Initiation Notice.
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated August 26, 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.\5\ 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.\6\ On March 31, 2026, pursuant to section
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, Commerce extended the preliminary results of
this review by 111 days.\7\ On August 28, 2026, we extended the
preliminary results of this review by an additional nine days.\8\
Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is now
September 8, 2026.
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\5\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated March 31,
2026.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated August
28, 2026.
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For a full description of the methodology underlying these
preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\9\ A list
of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
attached as the 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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\9\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Malaysia and Partial
Rescission; 2024-2025,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted
by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the Order is PC strand from Malaysia.
For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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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.\10\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative
review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty
assessment rate for the review period.\11\ 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 antidumping duty assessment rate
calculated for the POR.\12\
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\10\ 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).
\11\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\12\ 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 Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (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'').
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Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind
the instant review for Southern Steel because there were no reviewable,
suspended entries of subject merchandise from it during the POR and
invited interested parties to comment.\13\ No party commented on this
memorandum. In the absence of any suspended entries of subject
merchandise from this company during the POR, we are rescinding this
administrative review for Southern Steel, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(d)(3).
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\13\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated August 26, 2025.
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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. NV is calculated in accordance with section 773
of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our
conclusion, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rate for Non-Individually Examined Company
The Act does 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. However, Commerce's regulation at 19 CFR
351.109(g) states that Commerce will determine the rate for non-
selected companies by following the process set forth in 19 CFR
351.109(f)(1)-(2), which generally parallels the process for
determining the all-others rate in an investigation under section
735(c)(5) of the Act.
Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.109(f), 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 and 19 CFR 351.109(f)(2)(iii) provide 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
weighted-average dumping margins for the mandatory respondents, Kiswire
and Southern, that are not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts
available. Accordingly, we are preliminarily assigning to Wei Dat Steel
Wire Sdn. Bhd. (Wei Dat), the company under review that was not
selected for individual examination, a weighted-average dumping margin
equal to the simple average of the estimated weighted-average dumping
margins calculated for Kiswire and Southern, consistent with 19 CFR
351.109(g).\14\
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\14\ With two respondents under examination, Commerce normally
calculates: (A) a weighted-average of the dumping margins calculated
for the examined respondents; (B) a simple average of the dumping
margins calculated for the examined respondents; and (C) a weighted-
average of the dumping margins calculated for the examined
respondents using each company's publicly-ranged U.S. sale values
for the merchandise under consideration. Commerce then compares (B)
and (C) to (A) and selects the rate closest to (A) as the most
appropriate rate for all other producers and exporters. See 19 CFR
351.109(f)(2)(ii); see also Memorandum, ``Calculation of the
Weighted-Average Dumping Margin for the Companies Not Selected for
Individual Examination,'' dated concurrently with this notice.
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Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the
following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the
period June 1, 2024, through May 31, 2025:
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Kiswire Sdn. Bhd............................................ 1.29
Southern PC Steel Sdn. Bhd.................................. 1.42
Wei Dat Steel Wire Sdn. Bhd................................. 1.36
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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 the Federal Register, 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.\15\ 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.\16\ 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.\17\ 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.\18\ 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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\15\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for
general filing requirements).
\16\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\17\ 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).
\18\ 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
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request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their
briefs a public executive summary for each issue raised in their
briefs.\19\ 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).\20\
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\19\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\20\ 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.\21\
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\21\ 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 U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of
this review.
If Kiswire and Southern's weighted-average dumping margin are 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.\22\ 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 Kiswire and Southern's weighted-average dumping margin are 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.\23\
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\22\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\23\ 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 Kiswire
and Southern for which they 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.\24\
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\24\ 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 Wei Dat, we will assign an assessment rate based on the review-
specific rate, calculated as noted in the ``Rate for Non-Individually
Examined Companies'' section, above. The final results of this 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.\25\ Commerce
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP regarding Kiswire,
Southern, and Wei Dat no earlier than 35 days after the date of
publication of the final results of this review in the Federal
Register.
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\25\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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For Southern Steel, the company 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.
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 5.13 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV
investigation.\26\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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\26\ See Order.
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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
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accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(4).
Dated: September 8, 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. Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
V. Rate For The Non-Selected Company
VI. Discussion of the Methodology
VII. Currency Conversion
VIII. Recommendation
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