Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025

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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), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. In addition, we are rescinding the review with respect to three companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 191 (Monday, October 5, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63270-63272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-20294]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-829]


Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye: 
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), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. In addition, we 
are rescinding the review with respect to three companies. Interested 
parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.

DATES: Applicable October 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 August 22, 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 (AD) order on steel concrete reinforcing 
bar (rebar) from the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye (T[uuml]rkiye).\1\ On 
September 9, 2025, Commerce selected Colakoglu Metalurji A.S.; 
Colakoglu Dis Ticaret A.S. (collectively, Colakoglu) as the sole 
mandatory respondent in this review.\2\ 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\ 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.\4\ On May 20, 2026, Commerce extended the preliminary results of 
this review by 70 days.\5\ On August 3, 2026, Commerce extended the 
deadline for the preliminary results of this administrative review by 
an additional 28 days.\6\ Finally, on September 3, 2026, Commerce 
extended the deadline for the preliminary results of this 
administrative review by an additional 14 days, until no later than 
September 29, 2026.\7\
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 41043 (August 22, 2025); see also 
Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the Republic of Turkey and 
Japan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination for 
the Republic of Turkey and Antidumping Duty Orders, 82 FR 32532 
(July 14, 2017), as amended by Notice of Court Decision Not in 
Harmony with the Amended Final Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-
Value Investigation; Notice of Amended Final Determination, 87 FR 
934 (January 22, 2022) (Order).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated September 9, 
2025.
    \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 Preliminary 
Results of 2024-2025 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated 
May 20, 2026.
    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for 
Preliminary Results of 2024-2025 Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review,'' dated August 3, 2026.
    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Third Extension of Deadline for 
Preliminary Results,'' dated September 3, 2026.
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    For a complete description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\8\ 
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 found at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Steel 
Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye; 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 rebar from T[uuml]rkiye. 
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 AD order where it concludes that 
there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the 
POR.\9\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the 
suspended entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate for the 
review period.\10\ 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.\11\ 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

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parties to comment.\12\ No party commented on this memorandum. 
Accordingly, 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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    \9\ 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).
    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \11\ 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'').
    \12\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In 
Part,'' dated November 25, 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). Constructed 
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.

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 Colakoglu, 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 Colakoglu to Ekinciler 
Demir Ve Celik Sanayi A.S. (Ekinciler), the 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 the 
following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the 
period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                    Producer/exporter                     dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Colakoglu Metalurji A.S.; Colakoglu Dis Ticaret A.S.....           13.11
Ekinciler Demir ve Celik Sanayi A.S.....................           13.11
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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. 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.\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.
    \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 
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.\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 Colakoglu'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.

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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 Colakoglu'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 Colakoglu 
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 Ekinciler, we will assign an assessment rate based on the 
review-specific rate, calculated as noted in the ``Rate for Non-
Individually Examined Company'' 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.\22\
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    \22\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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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.
    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 3.90 percent, the all-others rate established in the amended final 
determination of the LTFV investigation.\23\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \23\ 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 and/or countervailing 
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 and/or 
countervailing duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double 
antidumping duties, and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping 
duties by the amount of the countervailing 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: September 29, 2026.
Scot Fullerton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.

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. Recommendation

Appendix II

1. Habas Sinai ve Tibbi Gazlar Istihsal Endustrisi A.S.
2. Icdas Celik Enerji Tersane ve Ulasim A.S.
3. Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. and Kaptan Metal 
Dis Ticaret ve Nakliyat A.S.

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