[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49150-49152]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12740]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-520-804]


Certain Steel Nails From the United Arab Emirates: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Partial 
Rescission; 2022-2023

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds 
that sales of certain steel nails (steel nails) from the United Arab 
Emirates (UAE) were not made at less than normal value (NV). The period 
of review (POR) is May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023. Additionally, 
Commerce is rescinding this administrative review, in part, with 
respect to 19 companies because the requests for administrative review 
were timely withdrawn. We invite interested parties to comment on these 
preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable June 11, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Galantucci or Brittany Bauer, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2923 or (202) 
482-3860, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 12, 2023, Commerce initiated an administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on steel nails from the UAE,\1\ in 
accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act), with respect to 21 producers/exporters of the subject 
merchandise.\2\ Commerce selected two mandatory respondents for 
individual examination: Master Nails and Pins Manufacturing, LLC 
(Master Nails)/Middle East Manufacturing Steel LLC (MEM) (collectively, 
Master); \3\ and Rich Well Steel Industries LLC (Rich Well).\4\ On 
January 17, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for the preliminary 
results of this administrative review until May 30, 2024.\5\
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    \1\ See Certain Steel Nails from the United Arab Emirates: 
Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 
Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 27421 (May 10, 2012) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 44262 (July 12, 2023).
    \3\ Commerce previously determined that Master Nails and MEM 
comprise a single entity. See Certain Steel Nails from the United 
Arab Emirates: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2020-2021, 87 FR 61566 (October 12, 2022).
    \4\ See Memorandum ``Respondent Selection,'' dated August 10, 
2023.
    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated January 
17, 2024.
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    For details regarding the events that occurred subsequent to the 
initiation of the review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\6\ A 
list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
included as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 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 https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 
version of the Preliminary Decision

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Memorandum is available at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Certain Steel Nails from the United Arab Emirates; 2022-2023,'' 
dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The products covered by the Order are steel nails from the UAE. For 
a full description of the scope, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.

Rescission of Administrative Review, In Part

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if a party who requested 
the review withdraws the request within 90 days of the date of 
publication of the notice of initiation. Commerce received a timely-
filed withdrawal request from Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc. (the 
petitioner) relating to 19 companies.\7\ Because the withdrawal request 
was timely filed, and no other party requested a review of these 
companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce is 
rescinding this review with respect to the following companies: (1) Al 
Falaq Building Materials; (2) Al Khashab Building Materials Co., LLC.; 
(3) Al Rafaa Star Building Materials Est.; (4) Al Sabbah Trading and 
Importing, Est.; (5) Al-Khatib Est. (6) All Ferro Building Materials, 
LLC.; (7) Asgarali Yousuf Trading Co., LLC.; (8) Azymuth Consulting, 
LLC.; (9) Burj Al Tasmeem, Tr.; (10) Gheewala Hardware Trading Company, 
LLC; (11) Madar UAE; (12) Mustafa Building Materials Co. (LLC); (13) 
New World International, LLC.; (14) Okzeela Star Building Materials 
Trading, LLC.; (15) Rishi International, FZCO; (16) Samrat Wire 
Industry, LLC.; (17) Sea Lan Contracting; (18) SK Metal International 
DMCC.; and (19) Trade Circle Enterprises, LLC.
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    \7\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Withdrawal of Request for 
Administrative Review,'' dated October 10, 2023.
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Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Act. We calculated export price in accordance with 
section 772(a) 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, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Preliminary Results of Review

    We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average 
dumping margins exist for the period May 1, 2022, through April 30, 
2023:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                    Exporter/producer                     dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Master Nails and Pins Manufacturing, LLC/Middle East                0.00
 Manufacturing Steel, LLC...............................
Rich Well Steel Industries LLC..........................            0.00
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties within 
five days after public announcement of the preliminary results or, if 
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice.\8\
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    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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    Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice.\9\ Rebuttal briefs, 
limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later 
than five days after the date for filing case briefs.\10\ Interested 
parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must 
submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of 
authorities.\11\
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    \9\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for 
general filing requirements).
    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative Protective 
Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 
2023) (APO and Service Final Rule).
    \11\ See 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior 
proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an 
executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages 
total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that 
interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, 
executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs.\12\ Further, 
we request that interested parties limit their public executive summary 
of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We 
intend to use the public executive summaries as the basis of the 
comment summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that 
will accompany the final results in this administrative review. We 
request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant 
citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note that 
Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the 
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\13\
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    \12\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \13\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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    Interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a 
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, filed electronically via ACCESS.\14\ Requests should 
contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the 
number of participants and whether any participant is a foreign 
national; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed. Issues raised in 
the hearing will be limited to those raised in case and rebuttal 
briefs.\15\ If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to 
hold the hearing at a time and date to be determined. A hearing request 
must be filed electronically using ACCESS and received in its entirety 
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the publication of this 
notice.
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    \14\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.310.
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Assessment Rates

    Upon completion of this administrative review, Commerce shall 
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review.\16\ Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1) if the weighted-average 
dumping margin for Master or Rich Well is not zero or de minimis (i.e., 
less than 0.5 percent) in the final results of this review, we will 
calculate importer-specific ad valorem antidumping duty assessment 
rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for 
the importer's examined sales to the total entered value of those same 
sales. If either respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero 
or de minimis, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties. The final results of this 
review shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on 
entries of merchandise covered by this review and for future deposits 
of estimated duties, where applicable.\17\
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    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \17\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice, 
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Master or 
Rich Well for which the respondent did not know that the merchandise 
was destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate 
those entries at the all-others rate established in the original less-
than-fair-value (LTFV) \18\ if there is no rate for the intermediate

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company(ies) involved in the transaction.\19\
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    \18\ See Order, 77 FR at 27422.
    \19\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the 
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will 
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties 
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 
90 days of publication).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the companies 
listed above will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin 
established in the final results of this administrative review, except 
if the rate is less than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de minimis within 
the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit 
rate will be zero; (2) for merchandise exported by a company not 
covered in this review, but covered in a prior segment of the 
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recently-completed segment of this 
proceeding in which it was reviewed; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered by this review, a prior review, or the original LTFV 
investigation, but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate will be 
the rate established for the most recently-completed segment of this 
proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be 
4.30 percent,\20\ the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
investigation. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \20\ See Order, 77 FR at 27422.
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Final Results of Review

    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, including the results of its 
analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, not later than 120 
days after the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of 
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of doubled 
antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213 and 19 
CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: May 30, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation

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