Certain Steel Nails From the Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary Results 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 Oman Fasteners LLC (Oman Fasteners) did not make sales of the subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. In addition, we intend to rescind the review with respect to 15 companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 198 (Thursday, October 15, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65528-65531]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-21043]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-523-808]


Certain Steel Nails From the Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary 
Results 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 Oman Fasteners LLC (Oman Fasteners) did not make sales 
of the subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the 
period of review (POR), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. In 
addition, we intend to rescind the review with respect to 15 companies. 
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results 
of review.

DATES: Applicable October 15, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine Bonilla, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office OIV, Enforcement and

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Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-7955.

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 (steel 
nails) from Sultanate of Oman (Oman).\1\ On September 22, 2025, we 
selected Oman Fasteners for individual examination 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) (Initiation 
Notice); 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 Identification,'' dated 
September 22, 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\ On May 20, 2026, Commerce extended the deadline 
for the preliminary results of this administrative review by 113 
days.\5\ On September 29, 2026, Commerce further extended the deadline 
for the preliminary results for an additional 7 days.\6\ The deadline 
for the preliminary results is now October 7, 2026.
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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 Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated May 20, 
2026.
    \6\ See Memorandum, ``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.\7\ 
A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
is attached as Appendix I 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 accessed at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Certain Steel Nails from the Sultanate of Oman; 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 steel nails from Oman. For 
a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.

Intent To Rescind Administrative Review, In Part

    It is Commerce's practice to rescind an administrative review of a 
duty order, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), when there are no 
reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which 
liquidation is suspended. Normally, upon completion of an 
administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the AD 
assessment rate calculated for the POR.\8\ Therefore, for an 
administrative review of a company 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\
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2).
    \9\ See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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    According to the CBP import data on the record, the companies 
listed in Appendix II subject to this review did not have reviewable 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which liquidation is 
suspended.\10\ Accordingly, in the absence of reviewable, suspended 
entries of subject merchandise during the POR, we intend to rescind 
this administrative review with respect to these companies listed in 
Appendix II, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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    \10\ See Memorandum, ``Release of Customs Data from U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection,'' dated August 27, 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). 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.
    The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment 
of a rate to be applied 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 zero or de minimis margins, and any margins 
determined entirely {on the basis of facts available{time} .''

Rate for Non-Examined Company

    The SAA provides Commerce with additional guidance as to what the 
agency should do when the only margins calculated for individually-
investigated exporters are zero/de minimis and/or determined entirely 
through facts available:

    In such situations, Commerce may use any reasonable method to 
calculate the all others rate. The expected method in such cases 
will be to weight-average the zero and de minimis margins and 
margins determined pursuant to the facts available, provided that 
volume data is available. However, if this method is not feasible, 
or if it results in an average that would not be reasonably 
reflective of potential dumping margins for non-investigated 
exporters or producers, Commerce may use other reasonable 
methods.\11\
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    \11\ See Statement of Administrative Action accompanying the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act, H.R. Doc. 103-316, Vol. I (1994) (SAA) 
at 873 (emphasis added).

    In this review, we preliminary calculated a dumping margin of zero 
percent for Oman Fasteners, the sole respondent individually examined. 
Therefore, there is no non-zero weighted-average dumping margin 
established for exporters and producers individually examined in this 
POR. Further, Oman Fasteners the only producer and/or exporter with a 
history of individual examination in this Order, and the non-
individually examined respondent under review, Gulf Nails LLC, has no 
history of individual review. Given the lack of history of review of 
applicable rates for firms other than Oman Nails, Commerce determines 
it is feasible and appropriate to look to other reasonable methods to 
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the applicable rate for non-selected respondents. The only rate 
established for exporters or producers in the history of the Order 
which is not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on adverse facts 
available is the 9.10 percent rate calculated for Oman Fasteners and 
assigned as the all-others rate in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigation.\12\ We find use of this rate to reflect the most 
reasonable method to approximate the exporting experience of the non-
reviewed respondent, as it reflects the rate established for 
respondents with no prior history of individual review. Accordingly, we 
have selected the 9.10 percent rate calculated for Oman Fasteners and 
assigned to all other producers and exporters in the LTFV investigation 
as the rate applicable to the non-individually examined respondent in 
this review.
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    \12\ See Certain Steel Nails from the Sultanate of Oman: Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 80 FR 28972 (May 20, 
2015).
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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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Oman Fasteners LLC..........................................        0.00
Gulf Nails LLC..............................................        9.10
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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 review 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 Oman Fasteners 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.\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 Oman Fasteners' 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 Oman 
Fasteners 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 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 the companies 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.\22\
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    \22\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International 
Trade, the assessment instructions will direct CBP

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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{ies{time}  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 9.10 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
LTFV investigation.\23\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, 
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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 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. Intent to Rescind Administrative Review, in Part
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation

Appendix II

Companies With No Reviewable Entries

1. Al Ansari Teqmark LLC
2. Al Kiyumi Global LLC
3. Al Sarah Building Materials LLC
4. Buraimi Iron & Steel, LLC
5. CL Synergy (Pvt) Ltd.
6. Diamond Foil Trading LLC
7. Gulf Nails Manufacturing, LLC
8. Gulf Steel Manufacturers, LLC
9. Modern Factory for Metal Products
10. Muscat Industrial Company, LLC
11. Muscat Nails Factory Golden Asset Trade, LLC
12. Oman Ocean Trading LLC
13. Omega Global Uluslararasi Tasimacilik Ticaret Ltd. Sti
14. Platinum Fasteners
15. WWL Indian Private Ltd.

[FR Doc. 2026-21043 Filed 10-14-26; 8:45 am]
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