Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-580-887]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024</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 POSCO, POSCO International Corporation, POSCO MS, Taechang Steel Co., Ltd., and Winsteel Co., Ltd., (collectively, the POSCO single entity) did not make sales of cut to length plate (CTL plate) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) in the United States below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR). The POR is May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable September 11, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Jaron Moore, 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) 482-3640. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On May 25, 2017, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty (AD) order on CTL plate from Korea. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On May 2, 2024, Commerce published a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order.</E> <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On July 5, 2024, based on timely requests for review, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> covering the POSCO single entity. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, and December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative review by seven and 90 days, respectively. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On April 17, 2025, we extended the preliminary results of this review to no later than September 5, 2025. See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from Austria, Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determinations for France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, </E> 82 FR 24096 (May 25, 2017) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review,</E> 89 FR 35778 (May 2, 2024). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administration Reviews,</E> 89 FR 55567 (July 5, 2024) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024, and Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for the Preliminary Results of the 2023-2024 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated April 17, 2025. </FTNT> For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 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">http://access.trade.gov.</E> In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from the Republic of Korea; 2023-2024,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The merchandise subject to the <E T="03">Order</E> is CTL plate. For a complete description of the merchandise subject to the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Commerce has calculated constructed export prices in accordance with section 772(b) of the Act. NV is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of the Review</HD> Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024: <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>  In a prior segment of this proceeding, Commerce found that POSCO, POSCO International Corporation, POSCO Mobility Solution ((POSCO MS), formerly known as POSCO SPS), and certain distributors and service centers (Taechang Steel Co., Ltd. and Winsteel Co., Ltd.) are affiliated pursuant to section 771(33)(E) of the Act, and further that these companies should be treated as a single entity (collectively, the POSCO single entity) pursuant to 19 CFR 351.401(f). <E T="03">See Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative review; 2019-2020,</E> 87 FR 6483 (February 4, 2022). No changes to the relationship among these entities was reported for this POR; therefore, no change to our affiliation/collapsing finding is warranted. Additionally, in August 2022, Commerce published the final results of a changed circumstances review (CCR), finding that POSCO, following a corporate organizational change in March 2022 (POSCO*), is the successor-in-interest to the pre-reorganization POSCO entity (POSCO(I)). Furthermore, POSCO* is entitled to POSCO(I)'s AD cash deposit rates with respect to entries of subject merchandise in this proceeding. Further, this CCR recognized that POSCO SPS is now recognized as POSCO MS effective January 1, 2022. For more detail, <E T="03">see Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the Republic of Korea, Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from the Republic of Korea, Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea, Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea, Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from the Republic of Korea, and Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review,</E> 87 FR 52910 (August 30, 2022). </FTNT> <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s50,8C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter/producer</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted average dumping margin <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> 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 in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Public Comment</HD> 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. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> 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. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Interested parties that 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. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(d); <E T="03">see also Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,</E> 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) ( <E T="03">APO and Service Procedures</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). </FTNT> As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> Further, we request that interested parties limit their executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We intend to use the 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 18k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━