Certain Uncoated Paper From Portugal: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025

Issuing agencies

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that The Navigator Company, S.A (Navigator), the only producer/exporter subject to this review, made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), March 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63522-63523]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-20484]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-471-807]


Certain Uncoated Paper From Portugal: Final 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) determines that The 
Navigator Company, S.A (Navigator), the only producer/exporter subject 
to this review, made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal 
value (NV) during the period of review (POR), March 1, 2024, through 
February 28, 2025.

DATES: Applicable October 6, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Monica Gillis, 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) 482-6384.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 3, 2026, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of this 
administrative review in the Federal Register and invited interested 
parties to comment.\1\ No interested party submitted comments on the 
Preliminary Results. Accordingly, the final results remain unchanged 
from the Preliminary Results, the Preliminary Results are hereby 
adopted as these final results, and no decision memorandum accompanies 
this notice. Commerce conducted this administrative review in 
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).
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    \1\ See Certain Uncoated Paper from Portugal: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025, 91 FR 
33145 (June 3, 2026) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>2</SUP>
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    \2\ See Certain Uncoated Paper from Australia, Brazil, 
Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, and Portugal: Amended 
Final Affirmative Antidumping Determinations for Brazil and 
Indonesia and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 11174 (March 3, 2016) 
(Order).
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    The merchandise subject to the Order is certain uncoated paper 
products from Portugal. For a complete description of the scope of the 
Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Final Results of Review

    For these final results, we determine that the following estimated 
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period March 1, 2024, 
through February 28, 2025:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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The Navigator Company, S.A.................................        2.70
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations 
of the final results of an administrative review within five days of a 
public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five 
days of the date of publication of the notice of final results in the 
Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224 (b). However, 
because we have made no changes from the Preliminary Results, there are 
no new calculations to disclose.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the

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final results of this review. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we 
calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based on 
the ratio of the total amount on estimated entered values. Because 
Navigator's weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis 
(i.e., less than 0.5 percent) in the final results of this review, we 
calculated importer-specific assessment rates based on the ratio of the 
total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales 
and the total entered value of those same sales in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where an importer-specific assessment rate is zero 
or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), the entries by that 
importer will be liquidated without regard to antidumping duties.\3\
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    \3\ 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 Navigator 
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.\4\
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    \4\ 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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    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP regarding 
Navigator 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 subject 
merchandise exported by Navigator will be equal to the weighted-average 
dumping margin established in these final results of this 
administrative review; (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 7.80 
percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\5\ 
These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until further notice.
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    \5\ See Order.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a final 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 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.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to parties 
subject to an APO of their responsibility concerning the return or 
destruction of proprietary information disclosed under APO in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern 
business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding. 
Timely written notification of the return/destruction of APO materials 
or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure 
to comply with the regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable 
violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: October 1, 2026.
Scot Fullerton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2026-20484 Filed 10-5-26; 8:45 am]
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