Welded Stainless Steel Pressure Pipe From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Results of and Intent To Rescind, in Part, Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025

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Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that sales of welded stainless steel pressure pipe (stainless pressure pipe) from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) were made at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. Additionally, Commerce intends to preliminarily rescind the review, in part, with respect to seven companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 13, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64877-64880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-20816]


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Federal Register / Vol. 91, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 13, 2026 / 
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-552-816]


Welded Stainless Steel Pressure Pipe From the Socialist Republic 
of Vietnam: Preliminary Results of and Intent To Rescind, in Part, 
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 sales of welded stainless steel pressure pipe 
(stainless pressure pipe) from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 
(Vietnam) were made at less than normal value (NV) during the period of 
review (POR) July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. Additionally, 
Commerce intends to preliminarily rescind the review, in part, with 
respect to seven companies. Interested parties are invited to comment 
on these preliminary results of review.

DATES: Applicable October 13, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luke Caruso, 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) 482-2081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
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    On June 4, 2026, we extended the preliminary results of this review 
by 113 days, until September 30, 2026.\6\ On September 24, we further 
extended the preliminary results of this review by seven days, until no 
later than October 7, 2026.\7\
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    \1\ See Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe from Malaysia, Thailand, 
and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders, 79 
FR 42289 (July 21, 2014) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 41043 (August 22, 2025).
    \3\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Partial Withdrawal of Request for 
Administrative Review,'' dated January 15, 2026.
    \4\ Due to extenuating circumstances in the instant review, 
i.e., interested parties were not given sufficient time to review 
the Preliminary Results of the prior segment of this proceeding and 
thereby inform their withdrawal of review requests with respect to 
the firms that had been requested in both segments of the instant 
proceeding, Commerce determined to accept the petitioners' untimely 
filed withdrawal of review request; see also Commerce's memorandum, 
``Acceptance of Late Filing Due to Extenuating Circumstances'', 
dated March 19, 2026.
    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Identification Memorandum,'' 
dated March 19, 2026.
    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Administrative Review,'' dated June 04, 2026.
    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review,'' dated 
September 24, 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 
Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Centralized Electronic Service System (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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    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Welded Stainless 
Steel Pressure Pipe from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; 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 scope of the Order is stainless 
pressure pipe from Vietnam. For a complete description of the scope of 
the Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Preliminary Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if a party who requested a 
review withdraws its request within 90 days of the date of publication 
of notice of initiation.\9\ As noted above, the petitioners withdrew 
their review requests and no other party requested an administrative 
review of Sonha International; Sonha SSP; Vinlong; Quang Thuong; and 
Cong Ty. Therefore, we are rescinding this administrative review with 
respect to these companies, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1).
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    \9\ Due to extenuating circumstances in the instant review, 
i.e., interested parties were not given sufficient time to review 
the Preliminary Results of the prior segment of this proceeding and 
thereby inform their withdrawal of review requests with respect to 
the firms that had been requested in both segments of the instant 
proceeding, Commerce determined to accept the petitioners' untimely 
filed withdrawal of review request; see also Commerce's memorandum, 
``Acceptance of Late Filing Due to Extenuating Circumstances'', 
dated March 19, 2026.
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    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.\10\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the 
suspended entries are liquidated at the AD 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 calculated AD assessment rate for the review period.\12\ According 
to the CBP data, there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise 
for either Mejonson or Vinasteel.\13\ In the absence of any suspended 
entries of subject merchandise from either Mejonson or Vinasteel, we 
are preliminarily rescinding this administrative review with respect to 
both Mejonson and Vinasteel, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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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 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 (July 8, 
2021), 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'').
    \13\ See Memorandum, ``Release of Customs Data from U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection,'' dated September 22, 2025.
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Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Pursuant 
to section 776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce has preliminarily 
assigned a weighted average dumping margin to the Vietnam-wide entity 
based upon total facts otherwise available with adverse inferences. For 
a full description of the methodology underlying the preliminary 
results of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

The Vietnam-Wide Entity

    Commerce's policy regarding conditional review of the Vietnam-wide 
entity applies to this administrative review.\14\ Under this policy, 
the Vietnam-wide entity will not be under review unless a party 
specifically requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a review of the 
entity. The petitioners \15\ requested a review of the Vietnam-wide 
entity in the instant review; therefore, the Vietnam-wide entity is 
under review.
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    \14\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in 
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty 
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity 
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013).
    \15\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Request for Administrative 
Review'', dated July 31, 2024.
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Preliminary Results of Review

    Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated 
weighted-average dumping margin exist for the period July 1, 2024, 
through June 30, 2025:

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                                                               average
                          Exporter                             dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Vietnam-wide Entity........................................       90.80
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations 
performed in connection with its 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 the notice of 
preliminary results in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19

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CFR 351.224(b). However, because Commerce preliminarily applied a 
weighted-average dumping margin based on total adverse facts available 
(AFA) to the individually examined entity in this administrative 
review, in accordance with section 776 of the Act, and assigned an AFA 
rate equal to the highest margin alleged in the underlying petition, as 
listed in the Investigation Initiation,\16\ there are no calculations 
to disclose.
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    \16\ See Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe from Malaysia, Thailand, 
and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of Antidumping 
Duty Investigations, 78 FR 35253, 35257 (June 12, 2013) 
(Investigation Initiation).
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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.\17\ 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.\18\ 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.\19\
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    \17\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
    \18\ 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).
    \19\ 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.\20\ 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).\21\
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    \20\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \21\ 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.\22\
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    \22\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Application of Facts Available With an Adverse Inference

    If Commerce continues to base the Vietnam-wide entity's weighted-
average dumping margin upon total facts otherwise available, with 
adverse inferences, in the final results of this review, then Commerce 
will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties at the rate determined 
in the final results of review for the Vietnam-wide entity.
    However, if the Vietnam-wide entity's final weighted-average 
dumping margin is not based on total facts otherwise available, with 
adverse inferences, Commerce intends to calculate the entity rate by 
dividing the total amount of dumping for reviewed sales to U.S. 
customers by the total quantity of sales by the Vietnam-wide entity. 
Commerce will calculate an estimated ad valorem entity-wide assessment 
rate to determine whether the per-unit assessment rate is de minimis; 
however, it will instruct CBP to apply the per-unit assessment 
rate.\23\
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    \23\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14, 
2012).
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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.
    For the Final Results, if we continue to rescind this review with 
respect to the companies listed above for which the review is being 
preliminary rescinded, then 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 the Final Results in the 
Federal Register.
    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.
    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 cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for 
shipments of the subject merchandise from Vietnam entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by sections 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for the companies 
listed above, which have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be 
that established in the final results of this review (except, if the 
rate is zero or de minimis, then zero cash deposit will be required); 
(2) for previously investigated or reviewed Vietnamese and non-
Vietnamese exporters not listed above that received a separate rate in 
a prior segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue 
to be the existing exporter-specific rate; (3) for all Vietnamese 
exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be 
entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the existing 
rate for the Vietnam-wide entity of 90.80 percent; and (4) for all non-
Vietnamese exporters of subject merchandise which have not received 
their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to 
the Vietnamese exporter that supplied that non-Vietnamese exporter. 
These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.

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

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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 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: October 6, 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. Preliminary Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Recommendation

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