Notice2026-19102
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Bulgaria, Egypt, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders
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Published
September 18, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing the antidumping duty (AD) orders on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Bulgaria, Egypt, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 180 (Friday, September 18, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59104-59106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-19102]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-487-002, A-729-805, A-552-853]
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Bulgaria, Egypt, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S.
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing the antidumping duty (AD) orders
on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Bulgaria, Egypt, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).
DATES: Applicable September 18, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla (Bulgaria) at (202)
482-3477; Kate Fracke (Vietnam) at (202) 482-3299; or Anne Entz (Egypt)
at (202) 482-3845, AD/CVD Operations, Offices I, III, and IX,
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 30, 2026, Commerce published its affirmative final
determinations in the less-than-fair-value investigations of rebar from
Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam, in accordance with sections 735(d) and
777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).\1\ On September
11, 2026, pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified
Commerce of its final affirmative determinations that an industry in
the United States is materially injured within the meaning of section
735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of dumped imports of rebar from
Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam.\2\
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\1\ See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Bulgaria: Final
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 91 FR
48084 (July 30, 2026); see also Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From
Egypt: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, 91 FR 48066 (July 30, 2026); and Steel Concrete Reinforcing
Bar From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 91 FR 48063 (July
30, 2026).
\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determination,'' dated September 11, 2026.
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Scope of the Orders
The products covered by these orders are rebar from Bulgaria,
Egypt, and Vietnam. For a complete description of the scope of the
orders, see the appendix to this notice.
AD Orders
Based on the above-referenced affirmative final determinations by
the ITC, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act,
Commerce is issuing these AD orders. Because the ITC determined that an
industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of
imports of rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam, unliquidated
entries of such merchandise from the countries, entered or withdrawn
from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment of
antidumping duties.
Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act,
Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping
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duties equal to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise
exceeds the export price (or constructed export price) of the
merchandise on all relevant entries of rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt, and
Vietnam. Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of
rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after March 13, 2026, the date of
publication of the Preliminary Determinations,\3\ but will not include
entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures
period and before publication of the ITC's final injury determination
under section 735(b) of the Act, as further described in the
``Provisional Measures'' section of this notice below.
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\3\ See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Bulgaria:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of
Provisional Measures, 91 FR 12351 (March 13, 2026); see also Steel
Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Egypt: Preliminary Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of
Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures, 91 FR
12347 (March 13, 2026); and Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative Determination
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final
Determination and Extension of Provisional Measures, 91 FR 12359
(March 13, 2026) (collectively, Preliminary Determinations).
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
Except as noted in the ``Provisional Measures'' section of this
notice, in accordance with sections 735(c)(1)(B) and 736 of the Act,
Commerce intends to instruct CBP to continue to the suspend liquidation
on all relevant entries of rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam.
These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until
further notice.
Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits
equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins indicated in
the tables below, adjusted by the relevant export subsidy offsets for
Vietnam.\4\ Effective on the date of publication in the Federal
Register of the notice of the ITC's final affirmative injury
determination, CBP will require, at the same time as importers would
normally deposit estimated customs duties on subject merchandise, a
cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the tables below. The all-
others rates apply to all producers or exporters not specifically
listed, as appropriate.
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\4\ We note that we are not making an export subsidy offset for
either Bulgaria or Egypt because: (1) there is no companion CVD
investigation on rebar from Bulgaria; and (2) we found no
countervailable export subsidies in the companion CVD investigation
of rebar from Egypt.
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Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins
The estimated weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:
Bulgaria
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Weighted-average
Exporter/producer dumping margin
(percent)
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Promet Steel JSC.................................... 53.27
All Others.......................................... 53.27
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Egypt
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Weighted-average
Exporter/producer dumping margin
(percent)
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Al-Ezz Dekheila Steel Alexandria Company S.A.E; Ezz 34.20
Steel Company S.A.E.; Ezz Rolling Mills Company
S.A.E.; and Al-Ezz Flat Steel Company S.A.E........
El Marakby Steel.................................... * 52.73
Suez Steel Company.................................. * 52.73
All Others.......................................... 34.20
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Vietnam
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Cash deposit rate
Weighted-average (adjusted for
Producer Exporter dumping margin subsidy offsets
(percent) (percent)
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Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel Joint Stock Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel 128.53 123.49
Company; Hoa Phat Hai Duong Steel Joint Joint Stock Company; Hoa
Stock Company; Hoa Phat Hung Yen Steel Phat Hai Duong Steel Joint
Limited Liability Company; and Hoa Phat Stock Company.
Prestressed Concrete Company Limited.
Vietnam-Wide Entity........................ ............................. * 136.57 131.53
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Provisional Measures
Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request
that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months.
At the request of exporters that account for a significant proportion
of rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam, Commerce extended the four-
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month period to six months in each of these investigations.\5\
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\5\ See Preliminary Determinations.
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The extended provisional measures period began on the date of the
publication of the Preliminary Determinations, i.e., March 13, 2026,
and ended on September 8, 2026. As a result, entries of rebar from
Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam made on or after September 9, 2026, and
before the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination
in the Federal Register are not subject to the assessment of
antidumping duties. Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of
the Act and its practice, Commerce will instruct CBP to terminate the
suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to
antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt,
and Vietnam entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after September 9, 2026, the first day provisional measures were no
longer in effect, until and through the day preceding the date of
publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal
Register. Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits
will resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final determination
in the Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\6\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the
Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\7\ The Final Rule and
Procedural Guidance provide that Commerce will maintain an annual
inquiry service list for each order or suspended investigation, and any
interested party submitting a scope ruling application or request for
circumvention inquiry shall serve a copy of the application or request
on the persons on the annual inquiry service list for that order, as
well as any companion order covering the same merchandise from the same
country of origin.
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\6\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20,
2021) (Final Rule).
\7\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
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In accordance with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in
the Federal Register after November 21, 2021, Commerce will create an
annual inquiry service list segment in Commerce's online e-filing and
document management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>, within five business days of publication of the
notice of the order. Each annual inquiry service list will be saved in
ACCESS, under each case number, and under a specific segment type
called ``AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.'' \8\
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\8\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment
Specific Information (SSI) field which will display the month in
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL-January
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance,\9\ the new annual
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is
published.
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\9\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206.
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Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of
appearance to remove or otherwise modify their list of members and
representatives, or to update contact information. Any changes or
announcements pertaining to these procedures will be posted to the
ACCESS website at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>.
Special Instructions for the Petitioner and Foreign Governments
In the Final Rule, Commerce stated that, ``after an initial request
and placement on the annual inquiry service list, both petitioners and
foreign governments will automatically be placed on the annual inquiry
service list in the years that follow.'' \10\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioner and foreign governments should submit their
initial entries of appearance after publication of this notice in order
to appear in the first annual inquiry service lists for these orders.
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and foreign
governments will not need to resubmit their entries of appearance each
year to continue to be included on the annual inquiry service list.
However, the petitioner and foreign governments are responsible for
making amendments to their entries of appearance during the annual
update to the annual inquiry service list in accordance with the
procedures described above.
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\10\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the AD orders with respect to rebar from
Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam, pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act.
Interested parties can find a list of AD and countervailing duty orders
currently in effect at <a href="https://www.trade.gov/data-visualization/adcvd-proceedings">https://www.trade.gov/data-visualization/adcvd-proceedings</a>.
These AD orders are published in accordance with section 736(a) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: September 14, 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
Scope of the Orders
The merchandise subject to these orders is steel concrete
reinforcing bar imported in either straight length or coil form
(rebar) regardless of metallurgy, length, diameter, or grade or lack
thereof.
The subject merchandise includes rebar that has been further
processed in the subject country or a third country, including but
not limited to cutting, grinding, galvanizing, painting, coating, or
any other processing that would not otherwise remove the merchandise
from the scope of these orders if performed in the country of
manufacture of the rebar.
Specifically excluded are plain rounds (i.e., nondeformed or
smooth rebar).
The subject merchandise is classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) primarily under item numbers
7213.10.0000, 7214.20.0000, and 7228.30.8010. The subject
merchandise may also enter under other HTSUS numbers including
7221.00.0017, 7221.00.0018, 7221.00.0030, 7221.00.0045,
7222.11.0001, 7222.11.0057, 7222.11.0059, 7222.30.0001,
7227.20.0080, 7227.90.6030, 7227.90.6035, 7227.90.6040,
7228.20.1000, and 7228.60.6000. HTSUS numbers are provided for
convenience and customs purposes; however, the written description
of the scope remains dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2026-19102 Filed 9-17-26; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
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