China Nails: Prelim Results of AD Admin Review
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from China (A-570-909). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from 17 companies under review entered August 2020 through July 2021.
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Commerce ordered liquidation “as entered” at the cash deposit rate in effect at the time of entry for subject merchandise from exporters for which a review was not requested, in a message to CBP (ADCVDWeb Message # 1201401).
Cash Deposit Requirements
Once Commerce issues its final results, new AD duty cash deposit requirements may take effect for some companies, beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register. Commerce preliminarily said the AD duty cash deposit rates for all 17 companies under review is the China-wide entity rate, i.e., 118.04%, because none of them established eligibility for a separate rate. The 17 companies include two, Dezhou Hualude Hardware Products Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Zhonglian Metals Ware Co., Ltd., that Commerce determined did not satisfactorily support their claims of no shipments during the review period.
No shipments. Commerce said 13 companies submitted no shipment certifications, but only 11 of those were determined by the agency to have no shipments during the period of review. They 11 are: Hebei Minmetals Co., Ltd.; Nanjing Caiqing Hardware Co., Ltd.; Nanjing Yuechang Hardware Co., Ltd.; Shandong Qingyun Hongyi Hardware Products Co., Ltd.; Shanxi Hairui Trade Co., Ltd.; Shanxi Pioneer Hardware Industrial Co., Ltd.; S-Mart (Tianjin) Technology Development Co., Ltd.; Suntec Industries Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Jinchi Metal Products Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Jinghai County Hongli Industry & Business Co., Ltd.; and Xi'an Metals & Minerals Import & Export Co., Ltd. The cash deposit rates currently in effect for these 11 companies will not change, and any entries during the period of review reported under their case numbers will be assessed duties at the 118.04% China-wide rate.
China-wide. The 15 companies Commerce said did not demonstrate independence from state control, or otherwise did not respond to Commerce Department questionnaires, and were assigned to the China-wide entity with a rate of 118.04% are: Dezhou Hualude Hardware Products Co., Ltd.; Huanghua Jinhai Hardware Products Co. Ltd.; Huanghua Xionghua Hardware Products Co., Ltd.; Jining Dragon Fasteners Co., Ltd.; Jining Huarong Hardware Products Co., Ltd.; Jining Yonggu Metal Products Co., Ltd.; SDC International Australia Pty. Ltd.; Shandong Oriental Cherry Hardware Group Heze Products Co., Ltd.; Shandong Oriental Cherry Hardware Import and Export Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Curvet Hardware Products Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Yueda Nails Industry Co., Ltd., a.k.a. Shanghai Yueda Nails Co., Ltd.; Shanxi Tianli Industries Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Jishili Hardware Products Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Universal Machinery Imp. & Exp. Corporation; Tianjin Zhitong Metal Products Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Zhonglian Metals Ware Co., Ltd.; and Zhejiang Gem-Chun Hardware Accessory Co., Ltd.
Further, for previously investigated or reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise for which a review was not requested and that received a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the cash deposit rate published for the most recently completed period. For all Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have not been given a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be 118.04%, the China-wide entity rate. For all non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have not received their own separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the Chinese exporter that supplied that non-Chinese exporter.
Assessment Rates
As part of this administrative review, Commerce will also calculate the AD duties it will assess on importers for entries of subject merchandise entered between Aug. 1, 2020, and July 31, 2021. If the preliminary results are unchanged for the final results, Commerce will instruct CBP to apply an assessment rate of 118.04% to all entries of subject merchandise during the review period that were exported by 17 companies in the China-wide entity. If Commerce continues to make a no-shipment finding in the final results for each of the 11 companies referenced above, any suspended entries of subject merchandise associated with those companies will also be liquidated at the China-wide rate.
(The period of review is 08/01/20 - 07/31/21. See the notice for additional information, including the scope of the order, potential cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc.)