Certain Steel Nails From Taiwan: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025

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The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain steel nails (nails) from Taiwan were sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 200 (Monday, October 19, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66102-66103]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-21362]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-854]


Certain Steel Nails From Taiwan: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
certain steel nails (nails) from Taiwan were sold in the United States 
at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 
2024, through June 30, 2025.

DATES: Applicable October 19, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henry Wolfe, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0574.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 16, 2026, Commerce published the Preliminary Results in the 
Federal Register and invited interested parties to comment on those 
results.\1\ No interested party submitted comments on the Preliminary 
Results, which are herein adopted as the final results of review. 
Accordingly, because the final results remain unchanged from the 
Preliminary Results, no decision memorandum accompanies this notice.
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    \1\ See Certain Steel Nails from Taiwan: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Partial Rescission of 
Review; 2024-2025, 91 FR 36116 (June 16, 2026) (Preliminary 
Results).
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    Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order <SUP>2</SUP>
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    \2\ See 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).
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    The merchandise covered by the Order is nails having a nominal 
shaft length not exceeding 12 inches.\3\ Nails include, but are not 
limited to, nails made from round wire and nails that are cut from 
flat-rolled steel. Nails may be of one piece construction or 
constructed of two or more pieces. Nails may be produced from any type 
of steel, and may have any type of surface finish, head type, shank, 
point type and shaft diameter. Finishes include, but are not limited 
to, coating in vinyl, zinc (galvanized, including but not limited to 
electroplating or hot dipping one or more times), phosphate, cement, 
and paint. Nails may have one or more surface finishes. Head styles 
include, but are not limited to, flat, projection, cupped, oval, brad, 
headless, double, countersunk, and sinker. Shank styles include, but 
are not limited to, smooth, barbed, screw threaded, ring shank and 
fluted. Screw-threaded nails subject to this proceeding are driven 
using direct force and not by turning the nail using a tool that 
engages with the head. Point styles include, but are not limited to, 
diamond, needle, chisel and blunt or no point. Nails may be sold in 
bulk, or they may be collated in any manner using any material.
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    \3\ The shaft length of nails with flat heads or parallel 
shoulders under the head shall be measured from under the head or 
shoulder to the tip of the point. The shaft length of all other 
nails shall be measured overall.
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    Excluded from the scope of the Order are nails packaged in 
combination with one or more non-subject articles, if the total number 
of nails of all types, in aggregate regardless of size, is less than 
25. If packaged in combination with one or more non-subject articles, 
nails remain subject merchandise if the total number of nails of all 
types, in aggregate regardless of size, is equal to or greater than 25, 
unless otherwise excluded based on the other exclusions below.
    Also excluded from the scope are nails with a nominal shaft length 
of one inch or less that are (a) a component of an unassembled article, 
(b) the total number of nails is sixty (60) or less, and (c) the 
imported unassembled article falls into one of the following eight 
groupings: (1) Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood that are 
classifiable as windows, French-windows and their frames; (2) builders' 
joinery and carpentry of wood that are classifiable as doors and their 
frames and thresholds; (3) swivel seats with variable height 
adjustment; (4) seats that are convertible into beds (with the 
exception of those classifiable as garden seats or camping equipment); 
(5) seats of cane, osier, bamboo or similar materials; (6) other seats 
with wooden frames (with the exception of seats of a kind used for 
aircraft or motor vehicles); (7) furniture (other than seats) of wood 
(with the exception of (i) medical, surgical, dental or veterinary 
furniture; and (ii) barbers' chairs and similar chairs, having rotating 
as well as both reclining and elevating movements); or (8) furniture 
(other than seats) of materials other than wood, metal, or plastics 
(e.g., furniture of cane, osier, bamboo or similar materials). The 
aforementioned imported unassembled articles are currently classified 
under the following Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS) subheadings: 4418.10, 4418.20, 9401.30, 9401.40, 9401.51, 
9401.59, 9401.61, 9401.69, 9403.30, 9403.40, 9403.50, 9403.60, 9403.81, 
or 9403.89.
    Also excluded from the scope of the Order are nails that meet the 
specifications of Type I, Style 20 nails as identified in Tables 29 
through 33 of ASTM Standard F1667 (2013 revision).
    Also excluded from the scope of the Order are nails suitable for 
use in powder-actuated hand tools, whether or not threaded, which are 
currently classified under HTSUS subheadings 7317.00.20.00 and 
7317.00.30.00.
    Also excluded from the scope of the Order are nails having a case 
hardness greater than or equal to 50 on the Rockwell Hardness C scale 
(HRC), a carbon content greater than or equal to 0.5 percent, a round 
head, a secondary reduced-diameter raised head section, a centered 
shank, and a smooth symmetrical point, suitable for use in gas-actuated 
hand tools.
    Also excluded from the scope of the Order are corrugated nails. A 
corrugated nail is made up of a small strip of corrugated steel with 
sharp points on one side.
    Also excluded from the scope of the Order are thumb tacks, which 
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currently classified under HTSUS subheading 7317.00.10.00.
    Nails subject to the Order are currently classified under HTSUS 
subheadings 7317.00.55.02, 7317.00.55.03, 7317.00.55.05, 7317.00.55.07, 
7317.00.55.08, 7317.00.55.11, 7317.00.55.18, 7317.00.55.19, 
7317.00.55.20, 7317.00.55.30, 7317.00.55.40, 7317.00.55.50, 
7317.00.55.60, 7317.00.55.70, 7317.00.55.80, 7317.00.55.90, 
7317.00.65.30, 7317.00.65.60, and 7317.00.75.00. Nails subject to this 
Order also may be classified under HTSUS subheadings 7907.00.60.00, 
8206.00.00.00, 7806.00.80.00, 7318.29.00.00, or other HTSUS 
subheadings.
    While the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the Order is 
dispositive.

Use of Adverse Facts Available

    This review covers two producers and/or exporters of the subject 
merchandise. As discussed in the Preliminary Results, we are relying 
entirely upon facts otherwise available, pursuant to sections 776(a) 
and (b) of the Act, to assign estimated dumping margins to mandatory 
respondents Faithful Engineering and Top Forever because these 
companies were unresponsive to our requests for information, and 
thereby withheld necessary information that was requested by Commerce, 
failed to provide the information requested by the specified deadlines 
in the form and manner requested, and significantly impeded the review. 
Further, Commerce finds that Faithful Engineering and Top Forever 
failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of their ability to 
comply with requests for information and, thus, Commerce is applying an 
adverse inference in selecting among the facts available, in accordance 
with section 776(b) of the Act. Using adverse facts available (AFA), we 
are assigning these companies a rate of 78.17 percent, which is the 
highest rate applied in any segment of this proceeding.

Final Results of Review

    We have determined the following dumping margins for the firms 
listed below for the period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                      Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Faithful Engineering Products Co., Ltd......................       78.17
Top Forever Screws Co., Ltd.................................       78.17
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations 
performed in connection with the final results of administrative review 
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 the final results in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b). However, because Commerce did not calculate any dumping 
margins in this review, there are no new calculations to disclose.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) 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 final results of 
this review.
    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).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    Upon publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the 
following cash deposit requirements will be effective 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 of 
this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 
Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for Faithful Engineering and Top 
Forever, will be equal to the appropriate dumping margin established in 
the final results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise 
exported by producers or exporters not covered in this review but 
covered in a prior completed segment of the proceeding, the cash 
deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published in 
the completed segment for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter 
is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original 
less than fair value (LTFV) investigation, but the producer has been 
covered in a prior completed segment of this proceeding, then the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate established in the completed segment for 
the most recent period for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the 
cash deposit rate for all other producers and exporters will continue 
to be 2.16 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
investigation, as amended.\4\ These cash deposit requirements, when 
imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \4\ See Certain Steel Nails from Taiwan: Notice of Court 
Decision Not in Harmony With Final Determination in Less Than Fair 
Value Investigation and Notice of Amended Final Determination, 82 FR 
55090 (November 20, 2017).
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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 the POR. 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 final 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 the terms of an APO is a sanctionable 
violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these final results of administrative 
review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 
19 CFR 351.221(b)(5) and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

    Dated: October 13, 2026.
Scot Fullerton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2026-21362 Filed 10-16-26; 8:45 am]
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