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Taiwan Steel Nails: Prelim Results of AD Admin Review

The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Taiwan (A-583-854). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from five exporters that were entered July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018.

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Only the exporters for which an administrative review was requested are covered by this review. Cash deposit rates for all other exporters will not change. Commerce ordered liquidation "as entered" for entries during the period of review from all exporters for which a review was not requested or the request was withdrawn, in messages to CBP (here) and (here).

Cash Deposit Requirements

Once Commerce issues its final results, new AD duty cash deposit requirements may take effect for the five companies remaining under review, beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register. Commerce preliminarily calculated the following AD duty rates:

Producer/ExporterAD Rate (Prelim)
Liang Chyuan Industrial Co., Ltd. / Integral Building
Products Inc.
2.68%
PT Enterprise, Inc./ Pro-Team Coil Nail Enterprise, Inc.7.23%
Unicatch Industrial Co. Ltd.28.36%
Hor Liang Industrial Corp.13.39%
Romp Coil Nails Industries Inc.13.39%

Assessment Rates

As part of this administrative review, Commerce will also calculate final AD duty assessments on importers of subject merchandise from the companies under review that was entered between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018. If these preliminary results are confirmed in the final results, Commerce will calculate importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Liang Chyuan, PT Enterprise and Unicatch. AD duties on importers of subject merchandise from other companies entered during the period under review will be assessed at the rates listed above.

(The period of review is 07/01/17 - 06/30/18. See the notice for additional information, including the scope of the order, potential cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc.)

AD/CVD Operations contact -- Irene Gorelik (202) 482-6905

(Federal Register 09/12/19)