Notice2026-20898
Certain Steel Nails From Malaysia: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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Published
October 14, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that producers/exporters subject to this administrative 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 40 companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 14, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65166-65169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-20898]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-557-816]
Certain Steel Nails From Malaysia: 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 finds
that producers/exporters subject to this administrative 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 40 companies.
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results
of review.
DATES: Applicable October 14, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyler Weinhold, AD/CVD Operations,
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Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1121.
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 certain steel nails
(nails) from Malaysia.\1\ On September 25, 2025, Commerce selected
Region International Co., Ltd. and Region System Sdn. Bhd.
(collectively, Region) as the sole mandatory respondent in this
review.\2\
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\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 41043 (August 22, 2025); see also
Certain Steel Nails from the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the
Sultanate of Oman, Taiwan, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:
Antidumping Duty Orders, 80 FR 39994 (July 13, 2015) (Order).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated September
25, 2025.
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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.\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\ Between June 3, 2026, and September 29, 2026, we
extended the preliminary results of this review to no later than
October 7, 2026.\5\
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\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 Memoranda, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated June 3,
2026; ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review,'' dated August 25, 2026; and ``Extension
of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review,'' dated September 29, 2026.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\6\
A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is attached as Appendix I 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 accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
on Certain Steel Nails from Malaysia; 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 nails from Malaysia. 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.\7\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the
suspended entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate for the
review period.\8\ 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.\9\ Commerce notified all
interested parties of its intent to rescind the instant review
regarding the companies listed in Appendix III because there were no
reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise from these
companies during the POR and invited interested parties to comment.\10\
No party commented on this memorandum. 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 III, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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\7\ 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).
\8\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\9\ 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'').
\10\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, in
Part,'' dated January 8, 2026.
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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). 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 Companies
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 Region, 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
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weighted-average dumping margin calculated for Region to the companies
under review that were 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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Region International Co., Ltd. and Region System Sdn. 2.01
Bhd....................................................
Companies Not Selected for Individual Review \11\....... 2.01
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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. We will establish
the deadline for interested parties to submit case briefs at a later
date. 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.\12\ 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.\13\ 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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\11\ The exporters or producers not selected for individual
review are listed in Appendix II.
\12\ 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).
\13\ 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.\14\ 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).\15\
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\14\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\15\ 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.\16\
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\16\ 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 Region'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.
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.\17\ 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 Region'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.\18\
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\17\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\18\ 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 Region
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.\19\
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\19\ 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 the companies listed in Appendix II which were not selected for
individual review, we will assign an assessment rate based on the
review-specific rate, calculated as noted in the ``Rate for Non-
Individually Examined Companies'' 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.\20\
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\20\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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For the companies listed in Appendix III 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.
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP regarding
Region and the companies listed in Appendix II 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
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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 company
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 2.66 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV
investigation.\21\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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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 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 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 7, 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. Currency Conversion
VI. Recommendation
Appendix II
Non-Individually Examined Companies Receiving the Review-Specific Rate
1. Best Staples Sdn. Bhd.
2. Inmax Industries Sdn. Bhd. and Inmax Sdn. Bhd.
3. Kimmu Industries Sdn. Bhd.
4. Madura Fasteners Sdn. Bhd.
5. Tag Fasteners Sdn. Bhd.
Appendix III
Companies Rescinded from Review
1. Alsons Manufacturing India, LLP
2. Atlantic Marine Group Ltd.
3. Asia Bolts & Nuts Sdn. Bhd.
4. Astrotech Steels Pvt. Ltd.
5. AV Fastener (M) Sdn. Bhd.
6. Chia Pao Metal Co., Ltd.
7. Chin Lai Hardware Sdn. Bhd.
8. Chin Well Fasteners Co.
9. Chuan Heng Hardware Paints and Building Materials Sdn. Bhd.
10. Come Best (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
11. Gbo Fastening Systems AB
12. Geekay Wires Limited
13. Gripwell Fastening (M) Sdn. Bhd.
14. Impress Steel Wire Industries Sdn. Bhd.
15. Fastenal Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
16. Fuji Fastener Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd.
17. Kerry-Apex (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
18. Kimmu Trading Sdn., Bhd.
19. Modem Factory for Steel Industries Co., Ltd.
20. Multi Venture Resources Sdn. Bhd.
21. Oman Fasteners LLC
22. PrimeSource Building Products Inc.
23. RM Wire Industries Sdn. Bhd.
24. S.H. Chooi Fasteners
25. SK Bolts & Fasteners Sdn. Bhd.
26. SNA Steel Products (M) Sdn. Bhd.
27. Soon Shing Building Materials Sdn. Bhd.
28. Storeit Services LLP
29. Sunmat Industries Sdn., Bhd.
30. Tag Staples Sdn., Bhd.
31. Tampin Sin Yong Wai Industry Sdn. Bhd.
32. Top Remac Industries
33. Trinity Steel Private Limited
34. UD Industries Sdn., Bhd.
35. Vien Group Sdn., Bhd.
36. Watasan Industries Sdn., Bhd.
37. Winston Mayer Sdn. Bhd.
38. Wing Tai Fastener Manufacturer
39. WWL India Private Ltd.
40. Yew Siong Industrial Supplies Sdn. Bhd.
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