Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[C-489-819]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2023</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 determines that countervailable subsidies were provided to producers and exporters of steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye) during the period of review (POR) January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this review with respect to two companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable January 26, 2026. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Ajay Menon, AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0208. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On November 6, 2014, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the countervailing duty (CVD) order on rebar from Türkiye. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On November 1, 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 December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline to issue the preliminary results in administrative reviews for which the opportunity to request the review was published in November or December 2024, by 90 days. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On December 18, 2024, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the notice of the initiation of this administrative review. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the Republic of Turkey: Countervailing Duty Order,</E> 79 FR 65926 (November 6, 2014) ( <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 87338 (November 1, 2024). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 102856 (December 18, 2024) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </FTNT> Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown, on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by 47 days, <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> and, due to a backlog of documents that were electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS) during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an additional 21 days. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Further, on December 22, 2025, Commerce extended the time period for issuing these preliminary results by 14 days, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is now January 21, 2026. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>  See Memorandum, “Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the Federal Government,” dated November 14, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>  See Memorandum, “Tolling of all Case Deadlines,” dated November 24, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for the Preliminary Results of the 2023 Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,” dated December 22, 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>8</SU> <FTREF/> A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is provided in the appendix to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://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> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Countervailing Duty Administrative Review of Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar from the Republic of Türkiye; 2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The merchandise covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is rebar from Türkiye. For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part</HD> In accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an administrative review, in whole or in part, if all parties that requested the review withdraw their requests within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation of the requested review. Commerce received a timely-filed withdrawal request, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), from the Rebar Trade Action Coalition (the petitioner) for Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. and Kaptan Metal Dis Ticaret ve Nakliyat A.S (collectively, Kaptan). <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Because the withdrawal request was timely filed, and no other party requested a review of this company, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding this review of the <E T="03">Order</E> with respect to Kaptan. <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Petitioner's Letter, “Withdrawal of Request for Administrative Review,” dated March 18, 2025. </FTNT> Further, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce's practice is to rescind an administrative review of a CVD order when it concludes that there are no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the CVD assessment rate calculated for the review period. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, for an administrative review of a company to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the CVD assessment rate calculated for the POR. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Lightweight Thermal Paper from the People's Republic of China: Notice of Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2015,</E> 82 FR 14349 (March 20, 2017); <E T="03">see also Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel Pipe from the People's Republic of China: Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2017,</E> 84 FR 14650 (April 11, 2019). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). </FTNT> According to the CBP import data, Icdas Celik Enerji Tersane ve Ulasim Sanayi A.S. (Icdas), had no entries of subject merchandise during the POR. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, we notified parties that we intended to rescind this administrative review with respect to Icdas and provided parties an opportunity to submit comments. <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> We received no comments from interested parties. Therefore, in the absence of suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), we are also rescinding the administrative review with respect to Icdas. <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Entry Data,” dated December 26, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,” dated March 17, 2025. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance with 751(a)(1)(A) of the Act. For each of the subsidy programs found countervailable, we preliminarily find that there is a subsidy, <E T="03">i.e.,</E> a financial contribution by an “authority” that gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, and that the subsidy is specific. <SU>15</SU> <FTREF/> For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <FTNT> <SU>15</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of the Act regarding specificity. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of Review</HD> As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine that the following net countervailable subsidy rate exists for the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s50,12C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Company</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Subsidy rate (percent <E T="03">ad valorem</E> <ENT I="01">Colakoglu Metalurji A.S</ENT> <ENT>1.84</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Commerce intends to disclose its c ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 17k characters. 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