Certain Steel Nails From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-570-909]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Steel Nails From the People's Republic of China: 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 Shanghai Yueda Nails Co., Ltd., a.k.a. Shanghai Yueda Nails Industry Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Yueda) and Shanghai Yueda Nails (Chuzhou) Ltd. (Chuzhou Yueda) (collectively, Yueda Nails), exporters of certain steel nails from the People's Republic of China (China), sold subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) August 1, 2023, through July 31, 2024. Commerce is also rescinding the review with respect to four exporters that had no reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable January 28, 2026. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Hannah Lee or Matthew Lipka, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1219 or (202) 482-7976, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On August 1, 2008, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty order on certain steel nails from China. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> After receiving multiple review requests, <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce published the notice of initiation of this administrative review on September 20, 2024. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> Between October 21 and 28, 2024, we received timely separate rate applications (SRA) or separate rate certifications (SRC) from Shanghai Yueda and Chuzhou Yueda. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> Additionally, three companies submitted no-shipment certifications. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Steel Nails from the People's Republic of China,</E> 73 FR 44961 (August 1, 2008) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc.'s Letter, “Request for Administrative Review,” dated August 29, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> Shanghai Yueda's Letter, “Request for Administrative Review,” dated September 3, 2024; and Chuzhou Yueda's Letter, “Request for Administrative Review,” dated September 3, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 77079 (September 20, 2024) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Shanghai Yueda's Letter, “Separate Rate Certification,” dated October 21, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> Chuzhou Yueda's Letter, “Chuzhou Yueda's Separate Rate Application,” dated October 28, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Shanxi Hairui Trade Co., Ltd's Letter, “No Shipment Certification” dated October 21, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> Hebei Minmetals Co., Ltd.'s Letter, “Hebei Minmentals' No Shipment Letter,” dated October 21, 2024; and Tianjin Jinchi Metal Products Co., Ltd.'s Letter, “No Shipment Letter for Tianjin Jinchi,” dated October 21, 2024. We note that an administrative review was not requested nor initiated for Shanxi Hairui Trade Co. Ltd. </FTNT> On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline to issue the preliminary results in this administrative review by 90 days. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> On June 27, 2025, Commerce extended the preliminary results deadline by 91 days. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> 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>8</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>9</SU> <FTREF/> On January 7, 2026, Commerce extended the preliminary results deadline by an additional nine days. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> Accordingly, the deadline for these preliminary results is now January 16, 2026. <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated June 27, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the Federal Government,” dated November 14, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of all Case Deadlines,” dated November 24, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated January 7, 2026. </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>11</SU> <FTREF/> 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>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Steel Nails from the People's Republic of China; 2023-2024,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">12</E> <E T="03">See Order.</E> </FTNT> The products covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> are nails from China. A full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is contained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Preliminary Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(a), “{g}enerally, the amount of duties to be assessed is determined in a review of the order covering a discrete period of time.” Thus, normally, upon completion of an administrative review, suspended entries of subject merchandise are liquidated at the antidumping duty assessment rate calculated for the review period. <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, in order to apply the final antidumping duty liability that was determined in an administrative review for a particular company, there must be at least one suspended entry of that company's subject merchandise that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the antidumping duty assessment rate calculated for the review period. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an administrative review if it concludes that, during the period covered by the review, there were no entries, exports, or sales of the subject merchandise, as the case may be. <SU>15</SU> <FTREF/> Because the entry data that we obtained from CBP showed no suspended entries of subject merchandise from the four companies identified in Appendix II, on December 30, 2024, we notified parties of our intent to rescind this administrative review with respect to those companies. <SU>16</SU> <FTREF/> No party commented on our intent to rescind this review with respect to these companies. Therefore, in the absence of any suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR from the companies listed in Appendix II, we are rescinding this administrative review with respect to these companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>15</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g.,</E> <E T="03">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>16</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,” dated December 30, 2024. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). We calculated export prices in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Because China is a non-market economy country within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, NV has been calculated in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Separate Rates</HD> In the <E T="03">Initiation Notice,</E> we informed parties that firms for which the review was initiated that wished to qualify for separate rate status must com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 25k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━