Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Mexico: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-201-863]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Mexico: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value</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) determines that certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Mexico are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable August 29, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Brian Smith or Katerina Katsiadas, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1766 or (202) 482-4929, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On April 10, 2025, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> its preliminary affirmative determination in the LTFV investigation of CORE from Mexico, in which we also postponed the final determination to August 25, 2025, and invited interested parties to comment on the <E T="03">Preliminary Determination.</E> <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On July 18, 2025, Commerce issued a post-preliminary analysis memorandum in which we made certain changes to our differential pricing analysis. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> We invited interested parties to comment on the Post-Preliminary Analysis. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Mexico: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures,</E> 90 FR 15349 (April 10, 2025) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Determination</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Post-Preliminary Analysis for the Affirmative Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,” dated July 18, 2025 (Post-Preliminary Analysis). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Briefing Schedule,” dated July 21, 2025. </FTNT> A summary of the events that occurred since Commerce published the Preliminary Determination, as well as a full discussion of the issues raised by parties for this final determination, may be found in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically 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 Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value in the Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Investigation</HD> The product covered by this investigation is CORE from Mexico. For a full description of the scope of this investigation, <E T="03">see</E> Appendix I. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope Comments</HD> In the Preliminary Scope Memorandum, we set aside a period of time for parties to raise issues regarding product coverage ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> scope) in scope-specific case briefs or other written comments. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> We received scope case and rebuttal briefs from multiple interested parties. For a summary of the product coverage comments and rebuttal responses submitted to the record for this final determination, and accompanying discussion and analysis of all comments timely received, <E T="03">see</E> the Final Scope Memorandum. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> In the Final Scope Memorandum, Commerce made no changes to the scope language as it appeared in the <E T="03">Initiation Notice.</E> <FTREF/> <SU>7</SU> <E T="03">See</E> Appendix I. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, the Republic of Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum,” dated April 3, 2025 (Preliminary Scope Memorandum). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, the Republic of Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Scope Decision Memorandum,” dated concurrently with this notice (Final Scope Memorandum). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigations,</E> 89 FR 80204 (October 2, 2024) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Verification</HD> As provided in section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), in April and May 2025, we conducted verification of the sales and cost information submitted by Ternium Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Ternium)/Tenigal, S.de R.L. de C.V. (Tenigal) (collectively, Ternium/Tenigal) and Galvasid S.A. de C.V. (Galvasid)/Perfiles LM, S.A. de C.V. (Perfiles) (collectively, Galvasid/Perfiles) for use in our final determination. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> We used standard verification procedures, including an examination of relevant sales and accounting records, and original source documents provided by Ternium/Tenigal and Galvasid/Perfiles. <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memoranda, “U.S. Verification of the Sales Response of Ternium USA, Inc. in the Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,” dated July 10, 2025; “Verification of the Sales Response of Ternium Mexico S.A. de C.V. in the Antidumping Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,” dated July 18, 2025; “Verification of the Cost Response of Ternium Mexico, S.A. de C.V. in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,” dated June 23, 2025; “Verification of the Sales Response of Galvasid S.A. de C.V. in the Antidumping Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,” dated July 11, 2025; and “Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,” dated May 12, 2025. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in case and rebuttal briefs submitted by interested parties in this investigation are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is attached to this notice at Appendix II. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Determination</HD> Based on our analysis of the comments received and our findings at verification, we made certain changes to Galvasid/Perfiles' and Ternium/Tenigal's margin calculations. For a discussion of these changes, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">All-Others Rate</HD> Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provides that the estimated weighted-average dumping margin for all other producers and exporters not individually investigated shall be an amount equal to the weighted-average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated excluding rates that are zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or determined entirely under section 776 of the Act, <E T="03">i.e.,</E> facts otherwise available. Therefore, we calculated the all-others rate based on a weighted average of the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory respondents using each company's publicly ranged values for the merchandise under consideration. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>  We followed our normal practice, which is, with two respondents, we calculate (A) a weighted-average of the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory respondents; (B) a simple average of the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory respondents; and (C) a weighted-average of the dumping margins calculated for the mandatory respondents using each company's publicly-ranged values for the merchandise under consideration. We then compare (B) and (C) to (A) and select the rate closest to (A) as the most appropriate rate for all other companies. 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