91 FR 50801 · published 2026-08-06
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The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that certain exporters made sales of non-refillable steel cylinders (non-refillable cylinders) at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025.
[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 150 (Thursday, August 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50801-50803]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-16008]
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-126]
Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders From the People's Republic of
China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of the Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily
determines that certain exporters made sales of non-refillable steel
cylinders (non-refillable cylinders) at less than normal value (NV)
during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025.
DATES: Applicable August 6, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Palmer, Office III,
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-1678.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 11, 2021, Commerce published the Order on non-refillable
cylinders from China.\1\ On June 25, 2025, pursuant to timely requests
for review, Commerce published the notice of initiation of the
administrative review of the AD Order on non-refillable cylinders from
China.\2\ Commerce initiated this administrative review covering the
following four exporters of subject merchandise: Ningbo Eagle Machinery
& Technology Co., Ltd. (Ningbo Eagle); Sanjiang Kai Yuan Co. Ltd.
(Sanjiang Kai Yuan); Wuyi Xilinde Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd. (Wuyi
Xilinde); and Zhejiang Kin-Shine Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhejiang Kin-
Shine).\3\
\1\ See Certain Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders from the People's
Republic of China: Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination and
Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders, 86 FR 25839 (May
11, 2021) (Order).
\2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews 90 FR 26967 (June 25, 2025) (Initiation
Notice).
\3\ Id., 90 FR at 26976.
Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown,
on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this
administrative proceeding by 47 days.\4\ Additionally, 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.\5\ On April 2, 2026, Commerce
extended the preliminary deadline in this administrative review by 60
days.\6\ On May 20, 2026, Commerce issued a second extension of the
preliminary deadline by 53 days, to no later than July 31, 2026.\7\
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated April 2,
2026.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,''
dated May 20, 2026.
For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this administrative review, see the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.\8\ 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 ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum can be found at https://access.trade.gov/frnotices.
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results and Partial Rescission of Administrative Review of the
Antidumping Duty Order on Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders from the
People's Republic of China, 2024-2025,'' dated concurrently with
this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
Scope of the Order
The products covered by this Order are certain seamed (welded or
brazed), non-refillable steel cylinders meeting the requirements of, or
produced to meet the requirements of, U.S. Department of Transportation
(USDOT) Specification 39, TransportCanada Specification 39M, or United
Nations pressure receptacle standard ISO 11118. A full description of
the scope of the Order is provided in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Partial Rescission of Review
As noted above, we initiated this review with respect to four
companies.\9\ Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind
an administrative review when there are no reviewable suspended entries
during the POR. Normally, upon completion of an administrative review,
the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty assessment
rate for the review period.\10\ Therefore, for an administrative review
to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry that
Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
liquidate at the calculated antidumping duty assessment rate for the
review period.\11\ On July 9, 2025, Commerce
placed on the record of the review CBP entry data for imports made
during the POR under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States (HTSUS) numbers listed in the scope of the Order.\12\ In the CBP
Data Memorandum, Commerce notified interested parties of its intent to
rescind the review with respect to the companies for which the CBP
entry data query indicated to have had no reviewable, suspended entries
of subject merchandise during the POR: Ningbo Eagle; Sanjiang Kai Yuan;
and Zhejiang Kin-Shine.\13\ Additionally, Sanjiang Kai Yuan notified
Commerce that it made no shipments of the subject merchandise to the
United States during the POR.\14\ No parties commented on our intent to
rescind. Accordingly, in the absence of any suspended entries of
subject merchandise from these companies during the POR, Commerce is
rescinding this review with respect to Ningbo Eagle; Sanjiang Kai Yuan;
and Zhejiang Kin-Shine in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). As a
result, Wuyi Xilinde represents the sole mandatory respondent with
suspended entries under individual review during the POR.
\9\ See Initiation Notice.
\10\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\11\ See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co. v. United States,
380 F.Supp.3d 1328, 1337 (CIT 2019), at 12 (referring to section
751(a) of the Act, the U.S. Court of International Trade held that
``{w{time} hile the statute does not explicitly require that an
entry be suspended as a prerequisite for establishing entitlement to
a review, it does explicitly state the determined rate will be used
as the liquidation rate for the reviewed entries. This result can
only obtain if the liquidation of entries has been suspended''; see
also Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and
Final Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019, 86 FR 36102 (July 8,
2021), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 4;
and Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian
Federation: Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, 77 FR 65532 (October 29, 2012) (noting that ``for an
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable,
suspended entry to be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment
rate'').
\12\ See Memorandum, ``Release of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Data and Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, in Part,''
dated July 9, 2025 (CBP Data Memorandum).
\13\ Id.
\14\ See Sanjiang Kai Yuan's Letter, ``Sanjiang Kai Yuan's No
Shipment Certification,'' dated July 24, 2025.
The China-Wide Entity
Under Commerce's policy regarding the conditional review of the
China-wide entity,\15\ the China-wide entity will not be under review
unless a party specifically requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a
review of the entity. Because no party requested a review of the China-
wide entity in this review, the entity is not under review, and the
entity's rate (i.e., 112.21 percent) is not subject to change.
\15\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013).
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance
with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. We calculated export prices in
accordance with section 772 of the Act. Because Commerce has determined
that China is a non-market economy country within the meaning of
section 771(18) of the Act, Commerce calculated normal value in
accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. For a full description of
the methodology underlying the preliminary results of this review, see
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted-
average dumping margin exists for the period May 1, 2024, through April
30, 2025:
Weighted-
average
Exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
Wuyi Xilinde Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd................ 218.88
Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis
performed to interested parties for these preliminary results within
five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this
notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309(c)(1)(ii), we have modified the deadline for interested parties
to submit case briefs to Commerce to no later than 21 days after the
date of the publication of this notice.\16\ Rebuttal briefs, limited to
issues raised in case briefs, may be submitted no later than five days
after the deadline date for case briefs.\17\ Interested parties who
submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit:
(1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of
authorities.\18\
\16\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\17\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Temporary Rule Modifying
AD/CVD Service Requirements Due to COVID-19, 85 FR 17006, 17007
(March 26, 2020) (``To provide adequate time for release of case
briefs via ACCESS, E&C intends to schedule the due date for all
rebuttal briefs to be 7 days after case briefs are filed (while
these modifications remain in effect.'').
\18\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2)(iii) and (d)(2)(iii), we
request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their
briefs a public executive summary for each issue raised in their
briefs.\19\ 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. Case and rebuttal briefs should be filed using ACCESS.\20\
Note that Commerce has modified certain of its requirements for serving
documents containing business proprietary information, until further
notice.\21\
\19\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\20\ See, generally, 19 CFR 351.303.
\21\ See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements
Due to COVID-19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July
10, 2020).
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal
briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, filed
electronically via Commerce's electric records system, ACCESS within 30
days after the date of publication of this notice. 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 the issues to be discussed. If a request
for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time
and date to be determined.\22\ Parties should confirm by telephone the
date and time of the hearing two days before the scheduled date.
\22\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
Unless otherwise extended, we intend to issue the final results of
this administrative review, which will include the results of our
analysis of the issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs, within
120 days of publication of these preliminary results in the Federal
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.213(h).
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and CBP shall assess,
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in
accordance with the final results of this review.
If Wuyi Xilinde's weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de
minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in the final results of this
review, Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific assessment
rates on the basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping
calculated for each importer's examined sales to the total entered
value of those sales. Where we do not have entered values for all U.S.
sales to a particular importer, we will calculate an importer-specific,
per-unit assessment rate on the basis of the ratio of the total amount
of dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total
quantity of those sales.\23\ To determine whether an importer-specific,
per-unit assessment rate is de minimis, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.106(c)(2), we also will calculate an importer-specific ad valorem
ratio based on estimated entered values. If Wuyi Xilinde's weighted-
average dumping margin is zero or de minimis or where an importer-
specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties.\24\
\23\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\24\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2); see also Antidumping Proceeding:
Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment
Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR
8101, 8103 (February 14, 2012).
For entries that were not reported in the U.S. sales database
submitted by the mandatory respondent(s) during this review, Commerce
will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the China-wide rate.
For the company listed above for which the review is being
rescinded, Commerce will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on
all appropriate entries. Antidumping duties shall be assessed at rates
equal to the cash deposit rate for estimated antidumping duties
required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for
consumption, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce
intends to issue rescission instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days
after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
The final results of this review shall be the basis for the
assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by
the final results of this review and for future deposits of estimated
duties, where applicable.
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 upon
publication of the final results of this review for all shipments of
the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the
notice of the final results of administrative review in the Federal
Register, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for
the companies that have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be
that rate established in the final results of this review (except, if
the rate is de minimis, then a cash deposit rate of zero will be
required); (2) for previously investigated or reviewed Chinese and non-
Chinese exporters for which a review was not requested and that
received a separate rate in a prior segment of this proceeding, the
cash deposit rate will continue to be the existing exporter-specific
rate; (3) for all Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have
not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate
will be the rate for the China-wide entity (i.e., 112.21 percent); and
(4) for all non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have not
received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate
applicable to the Chinese exporter that supplied that non-Chinese
exporter. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain
in effect until further notice.
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 and/or countervailing duties
prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period.
Failure to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's
presumption that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing
duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping
duties, and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the
amount of the countervailing duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and
351.221(b)(4).
Dated: July 31, 2026.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the 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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