Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Countervailing Duty Orders

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[C-351-863, C-122-872, C-201-864, C-552-844]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products From Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Countervailing Duty Orders</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing countervailing duty (CVD) orders on certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam). </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 19, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Paul Senoyuit (Brazil), Office II, telephone: (202) 482-6106; Colin Thrasher (Canada), Office V, telephone: (202) 482-3004; Maria Aymerich (Mexico), Office IV, telephone: (202) 482-0499; and Ted Pearson (Vietnam), Office I, telephone: (202) 482-2631; AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On August 29, 2025, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> its affirmative final determinations in the CVD investigations of CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On November 28, 2025, the ITC notified Commerce of its final determinations, pursuant to sections 705(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), that an industry in the United States is materially injured within the meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of imports of CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 42204 (August 29, 2025); <E T="03">see also Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Canada: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 42200 (August 29, 2025) ( <E T="03">Canada Final Determination</E> ); <E T="03">Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 42229 (August 29, 2025) ( <E T="03">Mexico Final Determination</E> ); and <E T="03">Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 42207 (August 29, 2025) ( <E T="03">Vietnam Final Determination</E> ) (collectively, <E T="03">Final Determinations</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> ITC's Letter, “Notification of ITC Final Determinations,” dated November 28, 2025. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Orders</HD> The products covered by these orders are CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam. For a full description of the scope of these orders, <E T="03">see</E> the appendix to this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Countervailing Duty Orders</HD> Based on the affirmative final determinations by the ITC that an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of subsidized imports of CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam, <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> in accordance with sections 705(c)(2) and 706(a) of the Act, Commerce is issuing these CVD orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, are subject to the assessment of countervailing duties. <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> </FTNT> Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further instructions by Commerce, countervailing duties on certain unliquidated entries of CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam, that were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after February 10, 2025, the date of publication of the <E T="03">Preliminary Determinations,</E> <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> but will not include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and before the publication of the ITC's final injury determination under section 705(b) of the Act, as further described below. <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Brazil: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 9228 (February 10, 2025); <E T="03">see also Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Canada: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 9231 (February 10, 2025); <E T="03">Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 9226 (February 10, 2025) ( <E T="03">Mexico Preliminary Determination</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM); and <E T="03">Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination with Antidumping Duty Determination,</E> 90 FR 9235 (February 10, 2025) ( <E T="03">Vietnam Preliminary Determination</E> ) (collectively, <E T="03">Preliminary Determinations</E> ). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits</HD> In accordance with section 706 of the Act, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation and continue the suspension of liquidation, as applicable, of CORE from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determination in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> , and to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing duties on each entry of subject merchandise in an amount based on the net countervailable subsidy rates below. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further notice. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>  For the <E T="03">Mexico Preliminary Determination,</E> Commerce did not instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of entries of subject merchandise for Galvasid S.A. de C.V (Galvasid), and for the <E T="03">Vietnam Preliminary Determination,</E> Commerce did not instruct CBP to suspend liquidation for Hoa Sen Group (HSG) or Ton Dong A Corporation (TDA) because Galvasid, HSG, and TDA's preliminary net countervailable subsidy rates were zero or <E T="03">de minimis. See Mexico Preliminary Determination,</E> 90 FR at 9227; <E T="03">see also Vietnam Preliminary Determination,</E> 90 FR at 9236. However, Commerce instructed CBP to suspend liquidation of entries of subject merchandise for TDA as a result of the <E T="03">Vietnam Final Determination</E> because TDA's final net countervailable subsidy rate was above <E T="03">de minimis. See Vietnam Final Determination,</E> 90 FR at 42208. Galvasid and HSG's final net countervailable subsidy rates were zero and <E T="03">de minimis,</E> respectively, and, consequently, Commerce did not instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of entries of subject merchandise for these companies. <E T="03">See Mexico Final Determination,</E> 90 FR at 42230; <E T="03">see also Vietnam Final Determination,</E> 90 FR at 42208. </FTNT> Commerce also intends, pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, to instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the amounts as indicated below. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determination in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> , CBP will require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated customs duties on the subject merchandise, a cash deposit for each entry of subject merchandise equal to the subsidy rates listed below. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> The all-others rates apply to all producers or exporters not specifically listed below, as appropriate. <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> section 706(a)(3) of the Act. </FTNT> Because the countervailable subsidy rates are zero and <E T="03">de minimis</E> for subject merchandise produced and exported by Galvasid and HSG, respectively, entries of shipments of subject merchandise from these producers/exporters are excluded from the countervailing duty orders on subject merchandise from Mexico and Vietnam. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Estimated Countervailable Subsidy Rates</HD> The estimated countervailable subsidy rates are as follows: <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>  Commerce found the following companies to be cross owned: CSN Mineração S.A.; Companhia Energetica Chapeco; and Companhia Estadual de Geração de Energia Elétrica. <E T="03">See Mexico Preliminary Determination</E> PDM at 6. <SU>8</SU>  Commerce found the following companies to be crossed owned: Usiminas: Mineração Usiminas S.A.; Usiminas Mecânica S.A; Unigal Ltda.; Ternium Brasil Ltda. <E T="03">See Mexico Preliminary Determination</E> PDM at 6-7. <SU>9</SU>  Commerce found the following companies to be cross-owned with ArcelorMittal Dofasco G.P.: ArcelorMittal Canada Holdings Inc., ArcelorMittal Canada Inc., ArcelorMittal Canada MP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 29k characters. 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