Silicomanganese From India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-823]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Silicomanganese From India: 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) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on silicomanganese from India for the period of review (POR) May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024. Commerce preliminarily finds that silicomanganese from India was not sold in the United States at prices below normal value during the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable September 11, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Gene H. Calvert, AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3586. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On May 23, 2002, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the AD order on silicomanganese from India. <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> covering the POR. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On July 5, 2024, based on timely requests for an administrative review, Commerce initiated this administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> with respect to one company, Maithan Alloys Limited. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Orders: Silicomanganese from India, Kazakhstan, and Venezuela,</E> 67 FR 36149 (May 23, 2002) ( <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 and Join Annual Inquiry Service List,</E> 89 FR 35778 (May 2, 2024). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 55567 (July 5, 2024). </FTNT> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative review by an additional 90 days. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> On May 7, 2025, Commerce extended the deadline for the preliminary results of this review by 110 days. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> On August 21, 2025, Commerce further extended the deadline for these preliminary results by 10 days. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> Accordingly, the deadline for Commerce to issue these preliminary results is September 5, 2025. For a complete description of the events that occurred since the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated May 7, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Second Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated August 21, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Silicomanganese from India; 2023-2024,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The products covered by this <E T="03">Order</E> are all forms, sizes and compositions of silicomanganese from India, except low- carbon silicomanganese, including silicomanganese briquettes, fines and slag. For a full description of the scope of 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) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). We calculated export price and normal value in accordance with sections 772 and 773 of the Act, respectively. For a full description of the methodology underlying these preliminary results, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as the 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 public version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of Review</HD> We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,15C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average <ENT>* 0.48</ENT> </ROW> <TNOTE> *  <E T="03">De minimis</E> . </TNOTE> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Commerce intends to disclose its calculations performed in the preliminary results of this administrative review to interested parties within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five days after the date of publication 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. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> 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>10</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>11</SU> <FTREF/> Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this administrative review must submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); <E T="03">see also</E> 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1); <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 Final Rule</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>12</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 administrative 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>13</SU> <FTREF/> 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 of this administrative review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant citations in the public executive summary of each issue. <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>  We use the term “issue” here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce via ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . Hearing 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 case and rebuttal briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, parties will be notified of the date, time, and location of the hearing. <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> Parties should confirm the date, time, and location of the hearing two days before the scheduled hearing date. <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.310(d). </FTNT> All sub ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 17k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━