Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate From Belgium: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-423-812]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate From Belgium: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, 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) preliminarily finds that certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate (CTL plate) from Belgium was sold at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this review in part, with respect to certain companies. We invite interested parties 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> Jerry Xiao, 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) 482-2273. </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 Belgium. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On May 2, 2024, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> for the POR. <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 AD administrative review. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> This review covers seven producers and/or exporters of the subject merchandise. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">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 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) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </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 the deadline for all administrative reviews by 90 days. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> On April 16, 2025, Commerce extended the preliminary results of this review by 120 days, until September 5, 2025. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>7</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 April 16, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate from Belgium; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included in the 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 directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The product covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is CTL plate from Belgium. For a full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of 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 AD order when there are no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate calculated for the review period. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be a suspended entry that Commerce can instruct CBP to liquidate at the AD assessment rate calculated for the review period. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Dioctyl Terephthalate from the Republic of Korea: Rescission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2021-2022,</E> 88 FR 24758 (April 24, 2023); <E T="03">see also Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Recission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021,</E> 88 FR 4157 (January 24, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). </FTNT> On July 5, 2024, we placed on the record U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for entries of CTL plate from Belgium during the POR, showing no suspended entries during the POR for certain companies and invited interested parties to comment. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> No interested party submitted comments regarding the CBP data. As there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise for the following companies: (1) Ancofer Stahlhandel GmbH.; (2) Eastman Chemical Technology BV; (3) NLMK Dansteel A.S.; (4) NV Hengelhoef Concrete Joints.; and (5) Steelforce Europe NV. On August 5, 2025, Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind the administrative review in part, with respect to these companies because there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR and invited interested parties to comment. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> No interested party submitted comments in response to this notice. Accordingly, in the absence of suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR for these companies for which this review was initiated, we are hereby rescinding this administrative review, in part, with respect to these five companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Entry Data,” dated July 5, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, in Part,” dated August 5, 2025. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Export price is calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. NV is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Non-Individually Examined Companies</HD> The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment of a rate to apply to companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in a market economy investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for companies which were not selected for individual examination in an administrative review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any rates that are zero, <E T="03">de minimis</E> ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> less than 0.5 percent), or determined entirely on the basis of facts available. Where the weighted-average dumping margin for each of the individually examined companies is zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts available, section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that Commerce may use “any reasonable method to establish the estimated all-others rate for exporters and producers not individually investigated, including averaging the estimated weighted-average dumping margins determined for the exporters and producers individually investigated.” In this administrative review, we preliminarily calculated a weighted-average dumping margin for Industeel, that is not zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts available. Accordingly, we are preliminarily ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 22k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━