Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Taiwan: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025

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The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Taiwan are being sold in the United States at below normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 14, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65163-65166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-20897]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-856]


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Taiwan: 
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 certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from 
Taiwan are being sold in the United States at below normal value during 
the period of review (POR), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. We 
invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable October 14, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Cohen or Anjali Mehindiratta, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4521 
or (202) 482-9127, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 30, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register a 
notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the AD 
order \1\ on CORE from Taiwan.\2\ In July 2025, Commerce received 
timely requests to conduct an administrative review of entries of CORE 
from Taiwan during the POR from Prosperity Tieh Enterprise,

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Co., Ltd. (Prosperity),\3\ and the petitioners.\4\ On August 14, 2025, 
we published a notice initiating an AD administrative review of CORE 
from Taiwan with respect to nine firms.\5\
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    \1\ See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India, 
Italy, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and 
Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for 
India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390 (July 25, 
2016) (Order).
    \2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative 
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 90 FR 27841 (June 30, 
2025).
    \3\ See Prosperity's Letter, ``Request for Administrative 
Review,'' dated July 31, 2025.
    \4\ The petitioners are Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Steel Dynamics 
Inc. (SDI), Nucor Corporation, and United States Steel Corporation, 
manufacturers of the domestic like product in the United States. See 
Petitioners' Letter, ``Request for Administrative Review,'' dated 
July 31, 2025 (Petitioners' Review Request).
    \5\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 41043 (August 22, 2025) (Initiation 
Notice).
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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.\6\ Further, 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.\7\ Additionally, on May 20, 2026, and September 24, 2026, 
Commerce extended the preliminary signature date by a total of 120 
days.\8\ Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is now 
October 7, 2026.
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the 
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated 
November 24, 2025.
    \8\ See Memoranda, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated May 20, 
2026; and ``Second Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty 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.\9\ 
A list of 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. ACCESS 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 
for Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan; 2024-2025,'' 
dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The products covered by this Order are certain flat-rolled steel 
products, either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant 
metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-
based alloys, whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished, 
laminated, or coated with plastics or other non-metallic substances in 
addition to the metallic coating. A full description of the scope of 
the Order is contained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Rescission of Review, In Part

    As noted above, we initiated this review with respect to nine 
companies.\10\ During the course of the review, we selected two 
mandatory respondents: Prosperity and Sheng Yu Steel Co., Ltd.\11\ 
There are seven companies upon which a review was requested and which 
were not selected for individual examination.\12\
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    \10\ See Initiation Notice.
    \11\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated September 
30, 2025.
    \12\ These companies are (1) China Steel Corporation (CSC), (2) 
Chung Hung Steel Corporation (Chung Hung); (3) Great Fortune Steel 
Co., Ltd. (Great Fortune), (4) Great Grandeul Steel Co., Ltd. (GG 
Steel Ltd.), (5) Great Grandeul Steel Company Limited (Samoa) (GG 
Samoa); (5) Great Grandeul Steel Corporation (GG Steel Corp.), (6) 
Xxentria Technology Materials Company Ltd. (Xxentria).
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review when there are no reviewable suspended entries. 
Based on our analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry 
data, certain companies identified in the Initiation Notice had no 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR.\13\ On August 28, 2025, 
Commerce released CBP data for U.S. imports of subject merchandise from 
Taiwan from the firms identified in the Initiation Notice during the 
POR, and provided notice to interested parties of Commerce's intent to 
rescind this instant review with respect to companies with no entries 
listed in the CBP data.\14\ Commerce received no comments on its intent 
to rescind this review with respect to the companies with no suspended 
entries listed in the CBP data. As a result, we are rescinding this 
review, in part, with respect to CSC, Chung Hung, Great Fortune, GG 
Steel Ltd, GG Steel Corp, and Xxentria.
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    \13\ These companies are (1) CSC, (2) Chung Hung; (3) Great 
Fortune, (4) GG Steel Ltd, (5) GG Steel Corp, and (6) Xxentria. See 
Memorandum, ``Release of Customs Data from U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection & Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,'' dated 
August 28, 2025 (CBP Data Release Memorandum) at Attachment 1 and 
Attachment 2.
    \14\ Id.
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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). Export 
price was calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Normal 
value was 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-Examined Company

    There is one company, GG Samoa, for which a review was requested, 
which had reviewable entries, and which was not selected as a mandatory 
respondent. 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(e)(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, 
Prosperity and SYSCO, that are not zero, de minimis, or based entirely 
on facts available. Accordingly, we are preliminarily assigning a rate 
to GG Samoa, the sole non-individually-reviewed company

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under review, based on the weighted-average of the estimated dumping 
margins calculated for Prosperity and SYSCO, weighted by the mandatory 
respondents' publicly ranged total sales values, consistent with the 
guidance in section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act.\15\
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    \15\ 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 
quantities 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, e.g., Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, 
Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Reviews, Final Results of Changed-Circumstances 
Review, and Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663 
(September 1, 2010). 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 July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                    Producer/exporter                     dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Prosperity Tieh Enterprises Co., Ltd....................            3.54
Sheng Yu Steel Co.......................................           20.73
Great Grandeul Steel Company Limited (Samoa)............            5.92
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in 
connection with these preliminary results to interested parties within 
five days after the date of publication of this notice in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.224(b).\16\
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    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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Public Comment

    Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. As Commerce intends 
to solicit additional information in a supplemental questionnaire, a 
timeline for the submission of case briefs and written comments will be 
notified to interested parties at a later date. Rebuttal briefs, 
limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed no later than 
five days after the date for filing case briefs, once established.\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\
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    \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 
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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    Interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a 
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, filed electronically via 
ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of 
publication of this notice.\21\ Requests should contain the party's 
name, address, and telephone number, the number of participants, and a 
list of the issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will 
be limited to those raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. If a 
request for a hearing is made, we will inform parties of the scheduled 
date for the hearing at a time and location to be determined.\22\ 
Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the 
hearing no fewer than two days before the scheduled date.
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    \21\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \22\ See 19 CFR 351.310.
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Final Results of Review

    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, including the results of its 
analysis of issues raised in written briefs, no later than 120 days 
after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register, 
pursuant to 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results, Commerce shall determine, and 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review. The final 
results of this review shall be the basis for the assessment of 
antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by this review and 
for future deposits of estimated duties, where applicable.\23\ Commerce 
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 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).
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    \23\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    If the respective weighted-average dumping margins are above de 
minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of this review, we 
will calculate importer-specific ad valorem antidumping duty assessment 
rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for 
the importer's examined sales to the total entered value of those same 
sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\24\ If the respondent 
has not reported entered values, we will calculate a per-unit 
assessment rate for each importer by dividing the total amount of 
dumping calculated for the examined sales made to that importer by the 
total quantity associated with those sales. We will instruct CBP to 
assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review when the importer-specific assessment rate calculated in the 
final results of this review is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent). 
Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero 
or de minimis, or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de 
minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries 
without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \24\ In these preliminary results, Commerce applied the 
assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping 
Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final 
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (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 the 
respondents for which they did not know that the

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merchandise was destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate entries not reviewed at the all-others rate if there is no 
rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
    For the company which was not selected for individual examination, 
we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties at an ad valorem 
assessment rate equal to the company-specific weighted-average dumping 
margin determined in the final results.
    For the companies rescinded from review, antidumping duties shall 
be assessed at a rate equal to the cash deposit of 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 recission instructions to CBP no earlier than 
35 days after the publication of these preliminary results in the 
Federal Register.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of the final results of the administrative 
review for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of 
publication of the final results, as provided by section 751(a)(2) of 
the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for each company listed above will 
be equal to the dumping margins established in the final results of 
this review, except if the ultimate rate is de minimis within the 
meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit rates 
will be zero; (2) for merchandise exported by producers or exporters 
not covered in this administrative review but covered in a prior 
segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be 
the company-specific rate published for the most recently completed 
segment of this proceeding in which the producer or exporter 
participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, 
a prior review, or the original LTFV investigation but the producer is, 
then the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most 
recently completed segment of the proceeding for the producer of the 
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or 
exporters will continue to be 11.04 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the Third Amended Final Determination.\25\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \25\ See Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan: Notice 
of Third Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less than Fair 
Value Pursuant to Court Decision and Partial Exclusion from 
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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)(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.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), and 
19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: October 7, 2026.
Scot Fullerton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Methodology
V. Particular Market Situation
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation


[FR Doc. 2026-20897 Filed 10-13-26; 8:45 am]
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