Certain Steel Nails From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Intent To Rescind, in Part; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-570-909]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Steel Nails From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Intent To Rescind, in Part; 2022-2023</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Shanghai Yueda Nails Co., Ltd., a.k.a. Shanghai Yueda Nails Industry Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Yueda), an exporter of certain steel nails from the People's Republic of China (China), sold subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) August 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable September 13, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Bob Palmer or Hannah Lee, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-9068 or (202) 482-1216, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> This administrative review is being conducted in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Commerce published the notice of initiation of this administrative review on October 17, 2023. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> In addition to the mandatory respondent, Shanghai Yueda, this review also covers nine other companies. On April 8, 2024, Commerce extended the preliminary results deadline until August 30, 2024. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> The deadline for the preliminary results is now September 6, 2024. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 88 FR 71829 (October 17, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated April 8, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">4</E> <E T="03">See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Steel Nails from the People's Republic of China,</E> 73 FR 44961 (August 1, 2008) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The products covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> are nails from China. A full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is contained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>  For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Steel Nails from the People's Republic of China; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Intent To Rescind Administrative Review, in Part</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to rescind an administrative review of an antidumping duty order where it determines that there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty assessment rate for the review period. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry that Commerce can instruct Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the calculated antidumping duty assessment rate for the review period. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to Length Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Recission</E> of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 4157 (January 24, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co.</E> v. <E T="03">United States,</E> 380 F. Supp. 3d 1328, 1335-36 (CIT 2019) (referencing section 751(a) of the Act, the U.S. Court of International Trade held that: “While 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 . . .);” <E T="03">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,</E> 86 FR 36102, and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 4; and <E T="03"> Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian Federation: Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, </E> 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”). </FTNT> On November 8, 2023, Commerce placed CBP entry data on the record for U.S. imports of the subject merchandise during the POR for respondent selection purposes. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Eight companies under review have existing separate rates but no suspended entries during the POR. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> In the absence of any reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise from these companies during the POR, Commerce hereby notifies all interested parties of its intent to rescind this administrative review with respect to these companies. Commerce is providing interested parties with an opportunity to submit comments on this preliminary decision, including factual information. Comments, including factual information, from interested parties are due to Commerce no later than seven days after the publication of these preliminary results. Rebuttal comments, including rebuttal factual information, are due seven days thereafter. All submissions must be filed electronically at <E T="03">http://access.trade.gov</E> in accordance with 19 CFR 351.303. <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Release of Customs Entry Data for Respondent Selection,” dated November 8, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Appendix II for a list of these companies. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. We calculated export prices in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Because China is an NME country within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, NV has been calculated in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as an Appendix to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is made available to the public via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is available at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Separate Rates</HD> We preliminarily determine that Shanghai Yueda is eligible for a separate rate in this administrative review. Because S-Mart (Tianjin) Technology Development Co., Ltd. (S-Mart) did not submit either a separate rate application or a separate rate certification, it is not eligible for a separate rate. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of the Review</HD> As a result of our analysis of the information on the record, Commerce preliminarily determines the following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the POR:  <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>  Because no interested party requested a review of the China-wide entity and Commerce no longer considers the China-wide entity as an exporter conditionally subject to administrative reviews, we did not conduct a review of the China-wide entity. Thus, the rate ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 118.04 percent) for the China-wide entity is not subject to change as a result of this review. <E T="03">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,</E> 78 FR 65963, 65969-70 (November 4, 2013). </FTNT> <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,20C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average dumping margin (percent ad valorem) </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Shanghai Yueda Nails Co., Ltd., a.k.a. Shanghai Yueda Nails Industry Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>7.14</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure and Public Comment</HD> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed for these preliminary results to the parties no later than five days after the date of publication of this notice ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 21k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━