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Taiwan Nails: Final Results of AD Admin Review

The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Taiwan (A-583-854). Commerce said it made no changes to its preliminary results of this review. Commerce will set assessments of antidumping duties for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021. New cash deposit rates set in these final results take effect Oct. 18.

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For exporters of subject merchandise that were not under review (i.e., all except the companies listed below), cash deposit rates remain at the level set in the most recent review of each respective company. If the exporter has never been assigned its own AD rate but the manufacturer has, the rate assigned to the manufacturer applies. For merchandise manufactured and exported by companies that have never been assigned a cash deposit rate by Commerce, the all-others rate of 2.16% applies.

New Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect Oct. 18

For entries on or after Oct. 18, Commerce is setting new AD cash deposit rates for subject merchandise produced or exported by the following companies:

Producer/ExporterAD Rate
King Chuang Wen Trading Co., Ltd.78.17%
Liang Chyuan Industrial Co., Ltd. / Integral Building Products Inc.78.17%
Liang Kai Co.78.17%
Review Average Rate (applicable to 59 companies)78.17%

Average Rate. Commerce didn't individually investigate 59 companies subject to this review and assigned them an average of the rates assigned to the only individually investigated companies. See Commerce's notice, Appendix II, for a full list of these 59 companies.

No shipments. Commerce determined that four companies had no shipments during the review period: Astrotech Steels Private Limited; Geekay Wires Limited; Region Industries Co., Ltd.; and Region System Sdn. Bhd. Additionally, the agency determined that resellers Create Trading Co., Ltd. and Wiresmith Industrial Co., Ltd. had no shipments of subject merchandise during the review period. Cash deposit requirements for these six companies will not change as a result of this review. Any entries under their case numbers will be liquidated at the 2.16% all others rate.

Assessment Rates for Entries July 2020 - June 2021

Commerce will assess AD on importers at the rates listed above for all entries of subject merchandise entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.

(The review period is 07/01/20 - 06/30/21. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope of the order, detailed cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc. See 2206110001 for the preliminary results of this review.)