Thermal Paper From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-580-911]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Thermal Paper From the Republic of Korea: 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 determines that the thermal paper from the Republic of Korea (Korea) is not being sold in the United States at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) November 1, 2023, through October 31, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable January 27, 2026. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Elizabeth Beuley, 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) 482-3269. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On November 22, 2021, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty order on thermal paper from Korea. <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/> The opportunity notice to request this administrative review was published on November 1, 2024. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On December 18, 2024, based on timely requests for review, we initiated an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> covering 17 companies in accordance 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU> <E T="03">See Thermal Paper from Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Spain: Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 86 FR 66284 (November 22, 2021) ( <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) ( <E T="03">Opportunity Notice</E> ). </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 Opportunity Notice.</E> </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU> <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 102856 (December 18, 2024). </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>6</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>7</SU> <FTREF/> On December 22, 2025, we extended the preliminary results of this review. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is now January 21, 2026. <FTNT> <SU>6</SU> <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the Federal Government,” dated November 14, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU> <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of all Case Deadlines,” dated November 24, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU> <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for the Preliminary Results of the 2023-2024 Antidumping 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>9</SU> <FTREF/> A list of the topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as Appendix I 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">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> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU> <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of 2023-2024 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Thermal Paper from the Republic of Korea,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The merchandise subject to the <E T="03">Order</E> is thermal paper from Korea. For a complete 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 Act. We calculated constructed export price in accordance with section 772 of the Act. We calculated NV in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying these preliminary results, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Partial Rescission of Administrative Review</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an administrative review when there are no entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which liquidation is suspended. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty 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 suspended entry that Commerce can instruct U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the AD assessment rate calculated for the POR. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>10</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>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> On February 4, 2025, we notified parties of our intent to rescind this administrative review regarding the companies listed in Appendix II because there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise produced or exported by these companies during the POR, and we invited interested parties to comment. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> No parties commented on our intent to rescind the review, in part. In the absence of any suspended entries of subject merchandise from these companies during the POR, we are rescinding this administrative review for the companies listed in Appendix II, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). <FTNT> <SU>13</SU> <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Notice of Intent to Rescind” dated February 4, 2025 (Intent to Rescind Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Company Not Selected for Individual Examination</HD> The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the rate to be applied 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 less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 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 zero or <E T="03">de minimis</E> margins, and any margins determined entirely on the basis of facts available. Where the weighted-average dumping margins for individually examined respondents are zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or determined 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 . . .” In this review, Commerce preliminarily calculated a weighted-average dumping margin of zero percent for Hansol Paper Company (Hansol). Therefore, we are preliminarily assigning a rate of zero percent to Tele-Paper (M) Sdn. Bhd. (Tele-paper), the company not selected for individual examination in this review, in accordance with section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of Review</HD> We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period November 1, 2023, through October 31, 2024: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,9"> <TTITLE> </T ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 22k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━