Hexamethylenetetramine From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-517-807]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Hexamethylenetetramine From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia) is being, or is 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 September 23, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Andrew Hart, 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) 482-1058. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On May 6, 2025, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> its preliminary affirmative determination in the LTFV investigation of hexamine from Saudi Arabia, in which we also postponed the final determination until September 18, 2025, and invited interested parties to comment on the <E T="03">Preliminary Determination.</E> <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On August 14, 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 parties to comment on the changes to the differential pricing analysis. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Hexamethylenetetramine from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures</E> 90 FR 19180 (May 6, 2025) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Determination</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. </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 Hexamethylenetetramine from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” dated August 14, 2025 (Post-Preliminary Analysis). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> </FTNT> A summary of the events that occurred since Commerce published its <E T="03">Preliminary Determination,</E> 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 in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Hexamethylenetetramine from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” 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 hexamine from Saudi Arabia. For a complete description of the scope of this investigation, <E T="03">see</E> Appendix I. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope Comments</HD> We received no comments from interested parties on the scope of the investigation as it appeared in the <E T="03">Preliminary Determination.</E> Therefore, we made no changes to the scope of the investigation from that published in the <E T="03">Preliminary Determination</E> for the final determination. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Verification</HD> As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), in May 2025, Commerce verified the sales and cost information submitted by Chemanol for use in the final determination. We used standard verification procedures, including an examination of relevant sales and accounting records, and original source documents provided by Chemanol. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memoranda, “Verification of the Cost Response of Methanol Chemicals Company in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Hexamethylenetetramine from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” dated June 11, 2025 (Cost Verification Report); and “Verification of the Sales Response of the Methanol Chemicals Company in the Antidumping Duty Investigation of Hexamine from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” dated June 25, 2025 (Sales Verification Report). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in the 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 as Appendix II. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances</HD> On August 27, 2025, Bakelite LLC (the petitioner) alleged that critical circumstances exist with respect to imports of hexamine from Saudi Arabia. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> We determine that critical circumstances do not exist for Methanol Chemicals Company (Chemanol), and all other companies not individually examined pursuant to section 735(a)(3) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.206. For a discussion of Commerce's critical circumstances analysis, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Petitioner's Letter, “Critical Circumstances Allegation,” dated August 27, 2025 (Critical Circumstances Allegation). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Determination</HD> We made certain changes to the margin calculation for Chemanol, since the <E T="03">Preliminary Determination</E> and Post-Preliminary Analysis. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> For a discussion of these changes, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Analysis for the Final Determination for the Methanol Chemicals Company,” dated concurrently with this notice. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">All-Others Rate</HD> Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provides that Commerce shall determine an estimated all-others rate for all exporters and producers not individually examined. This rate shall be an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero and <E T="03">de minimis</E> margins, and any margins determined entirely under section 776 of the Act. In this investigation, Commerce calculated an individual estimated weighted-average dumping margin for Chemanol, the only individually examined exporter/producer in this investigation. Because the only individually calculated dumping margin is not zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts otherwise available, the estimated weighted-average dumping margin calculated for Chemanol is the margin assigned to all other producers and exporters, pursuant to section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Determination</HD> Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period, July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,9"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter/producer</CHED> <ENT I="01">Methanol Chemicals Company</ENT> <ENT>6.13</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">All Others</ENT> <ENT>6.13</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in connection with this final determination to interested parties within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the publication of the notice in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> , in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation</HD> In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of hexamine, as described in Appendix I of this notice, which were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 6, 2025, the date of publication of the <E T="03">Preliminary Determination</E> in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . These suspension of liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice. Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(d), upon the publication of this notice, we will instruct CBP to require a cash deposit for estimated antidumping duties for such entries as follows: (1) the cash deposit rate for exporters listed in the table above is the company-specific estimated weighted-average dumping margins listed for the respondents in the table; (2) if the exporter is not listed in the table above, but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate is the company specific estimated weighted-average dumping margins listed for the producer of the subject merchandise in the table above; and (3) the cash deposit rate for all other producers and exporters is the all-others estimated weighted-average dumping margi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 15k characters. 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