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1See Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Carbon 

and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil, 

Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Trinidad and Tobago, 

and Ukraine, 67 FR 65945 (October 29, 2002) 

(Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review and Join Annual 

Inquiry Service List, 87 FR 59775 (October 3, 2022). 

3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 

74404, 74406 (December 5, 2022). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ dated June 14, 2023. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Administrative 

Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Carbon 

and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Mexico; 

2021–2022,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

Dated: November 1, 2023. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

V. Subsidies Valuation 

VI. Analysis of Programs 

VII. Discussion of the Issues 

General 

Comment 1: Whether to Accept OCP’s 

Payroll Tax Refund as a Minor 

Correction 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce’s ‘‘Other 

Assistance’’ Question Is Contrary to Law 

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Can Seek 

Information About the Provision of Rail 

Service for Less Than Adequate 

Remuneration (LTAR) and Direct Loans 

Comment 4: Whether Maroc Phosphore Is 

a Reporting Entity 

Provision of Mining Rights for LTAR 

Comment 5: Whether Commerce Should 

Revise the Phosphate Rock Benchmark 

Comment 6: Whether to Include or Exclude 

Headquarters (HQ), Support, and Debt 

Costs in the Costs of Producing 

Phosphate Rock 

Comment 7: The Cost of Production (COP) 

Profit Rate 

Comment 8: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply Adverse Facts Available (AFA) 

and Disregard OCP’s Reported Costs of 

Production for Phosphate Rock 

Comment 9: Whether Commerce Should 

Adjust the Phosphate Rock Benchmark 

for Freight 

Reductions in Tax Fines and Penalties 

Comment 10: Whether the Reductions in 

Tax Fines and Penalties Is Specific 

Provision of Port Services for LTAR 

Comment 11: Whether Agence Nationale 

des Ports’ (ANP) Provision of Port 

Services and Infrastructure to OCP 

Constitutes a Financial Contribution 

Comment 12: Whether ANP’s Provision of 

Port Services Is De Facto Specific 

Comment 13: Whether ANP’s Provision of 

Port Services Confers a Benefit Customs 

Duty Exemption for Capital Goods, 

Machinery, and Equipment 

Comment 14: Whether to Correct a 

Ministerial Error in the Benefit 

Calculation for the Customs Duty 

Exemptions for Capital Goods, 

Machinery, and Equipment Program 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–201–830] 

Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire 

Rod From Mexico: Preliminary Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2021–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that sales of carbon and 

certain alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) 

from Mexico were made at less than 

normal value during the period of 

review (POR), October 1, 2021, through 

September 30, 2022. We invite 

interested parties to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable November 7, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laurel LaCivita or Matthew Palmer, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–4243 or (202) 482–1678, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 29, 2002, Commerce 

published the antidumping duty order 

on wire rod from Mexico in the Federal 

Register.1 On October 3, 2022, we 

published in the Federal Register a 

notice of opportunity to request an 

administrative review of the Order.2 On 

December 5, 2022, pursuant to section 

751(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce initiated 

an administrative review of the Order 3

on wire rod from Mexico covering the 

following five exporters/producers: 

ArcelorMittal Mexico S.A. de C.V. 

(AMM); Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. 

(Deacero); Grupo Villacero S.A. de C.V. 

(Villacero); Talleres y Aceros S.A. de 

C.V. (Talleres y Aceros); and Ternium 

Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Ternium). On June 

14, 2023, Commerce extended the 

deadline for the preliminary results to 

October 31, 2023.4

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.5 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is attached 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 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to the Order 

is wire rod, in coils, of approximately 

round cross section, 5.00 mm or more, 

but less than 19.00 mm, in solid crosssectional diameter. The subject 

merchandise is classifiable in the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) primarily under 

the subheadings: 7213.91.3000, 

7213.91.3010, 7213.91.3011, 

7213.91.3015, 7213.91.3020, 

7213.91.3090, 7213.91.3091, 

7213.91.3092, 7213.91.3093, 

7213.91.4500, 7213.91.4510, 

7213.91.4590, 7213.91.6000, 

7213.91.6010, 7213.91.6090, 

7213.99.0030, 7213.99.0031, 

7213.99.0038, 7213.99.0090, 

7227.20.0000, 7227.20.0010, 

7227.20.0020, 7227.20.0030, 

7227.20.0080, 7227.20.0090, 

7227.20.0095, 7227.90.6010, 

7227.90.6020, 7227.90.6030, 

7227.90.6035, 7227.90.6050, 

7227.90.6051, 7227.90.6053, 

7227.90.6058, 7227.90.6059, 

7227.90.6080, and 7227.90.6085. The 

HTSUS subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes 

only; the written product description 

remains dispositive. 

A full description of the scope of the 

Order is contained in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 


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6See, e.g., Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from 

France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United 

Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Reviews and Rescission of Reviews 

in Part, 73 FR 52823, 52824 (September 11, 2008), 

and accompanying Issues and Decision 

Memorandum at Comment 16. 

7See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

8See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

9See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

10See Administrative Protective Order, Service, 

and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 

67069 (September 29, 2023). 

11See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

12See 19 CFR 351.310. 

13See CMC/Nucor’s Letter, ‘‘Request for 

Verification,’’ dated March 15, 2023. 

14 In these preliminary results, Commerce applied 

the assessment rate calculation method adopted in 

Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the 

Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 

Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 

(February 14, 2012). 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Export price and constructed 

export price were calculated in 

accordance with section 772 of the Act. 

Normal value was calculated in 

accordance with section 773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Rate for Non-Selected Companies 

For the rate for companies not 

selected for individual examination in 

an administrative review, generally, 

Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of 

the Act, which provides instructions for 

calculating the all-others rate in a lessthan-fair-value (LTFV) investigation. 

Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, 

the all-others rate is normally ‘‘an 

amount equal to the weighted average of 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins established for 

exporters and producers individually 

investigated, excluding any zero or de 

minimis margins, and any margins 

determined entirely {on the basis of 

facts available}.’’ Accordingly, 

Commerce’s practice in administrative 

reviews has been to average the 

weighted-average dumping margins for 

the companies selected for individual 

examination in the administrative 

review, excluding rates that are zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

available.6 For these preliminary results, 

we calculated a zero percent weightedaverage dumping margin for AMM and 

a weighted-average dumping margin for 

Deacero that is above de minimis and 

not based entirely on facts available. 

Therefore, consistent with our practice, 

we have assigned the companies not 

selected for individual examination (i.e., 

Villacero, Talleres y Aceros, and 

Ternium) the weighted-average 

dumping margin calculated for Deacero. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine the following 

weighted-average dumping margins 

exist for the POR: 

Producer/exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

ArcelorMittal Mexico S.A. de C.V 0.00 

Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V./ 

Deacero USA, Inc ................... 0.70 

Grupo Villacero S.A. de C.V ...... 0.70 

Talleres y Aceros S.A. de C.V ... 0.70 

Ternium Mexico S.A. de C.V ...... 0.70 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce will disclose to parties to 

this proceeding the calculations 

performed in reaching the preliminary 

results within five days of the date of 

publication of these preliminary 

results.7

Case briefs may be submitted to the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. Interested parties will be 

notified of the timeline for the 

submission of such case briefs and 

written comments at a later date. 

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in the case briefs, may be filed no later 

than five days after the date for filing 

case briefs.8 Parties who submit case 

briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding are requested to submit with 

the argument: (1) a statement of the 

issue, (2) a summary of the argument, 

and (3) a table of authorities.9 All briefs 

must be filed electronically using 

ACCESS. An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by Commerce’s electronic 

records system, ACCESS. Note that 

Commerce has amended certain of its 

requirements pertaining to the service of 

documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).10

Interested parties who wish to request 

a hearing must submit a written request 

to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, using 

Enforcement and Compliance’s ACCESS 

system within 30 days of publication of 

this notice.11 Requests should contain 

the party’s name, address, and 

telephone number, the number of 

participants, and a list of the issues to 

be discussed. If a request for a hearing 

is made, we will inform parties of the 

scheduled date for the hearing at a time 

and location to be determined.12 Parties 

should confirm by telephone the date, 

time, and location of the hearing. 

Unless the deadline is extended 

pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), 

Commerce will issue the final results of 

this administrative review, including 

the results of our analysis of the issues 

raised by the parties in their case briefs, 

not later than 120 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

Verification 

On March 15, 2023, Commercial 

Metals Company (CMC) and Nucor 

Corporation (Nucor), domestic 

interested parties, requested that 

Commerce conduct verification of the 

information submitted in AMM and 

Deacero’s responses.13 Accordingly, as 

provided in section 782(i)(3) of the Act, 

Commerce intends to verify Deacero’s 

information that will be relied upon in 

determining the final results of review. 

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the final results, 

Commerce shall determine, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review. For any individually examined 

respondents whose weighted-average 

dumping margin is above de minimis 

(i.e., 0.50 percent), 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 in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).14 If the 

respondent has not reported entered 

values, we will calculate a per-unit 

assessment rate for each importer by 

dividing the total amount of dumping 

calculated for the examined sales made 

to that importer by the total quantity 

associated with those sales. We will 

instruct CBP to assess antidumping 

duties on all appropriate entries covered 

by this review when the importerspecific assessment rate calculated in 

the final results of this review is above 

de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent). Where 

either the respondent’s weightedaverage dumping margin is zero or de 

minimis, or an importer-specific 

assessment rate is zero or de minimis, 

we will instruct CBP to liquidate the 


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15See Order, 67 FR at 65947. 

16See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act. 17See Order, 67 FR at 65947. 

1See Wooden Cabinets and Vanities and 

Components Thereof from the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Results, Preliminary 

Determination of No Shipments, and Partial 

Recission of the Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2021–2022, 88 FR 29086 (May 5, 2023) 

(Preliminary Results), and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of 

Wooden Cabinets and Vanities and Components 

Thereof from the People’s Republic of China; 2021– 

2022,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review,’’ dated August 14, 2023. 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties. 

In accordance with Commerce’s 

‘‘automatic assessment’’ practice, for 

entries of subject merchandise during 

the POR produced by each respondent 

which did not know that its 

merchandise was destined for the 

United States, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate entries not reviewed at the allothers rate of 20.11 percent 15 if there is 

no rate for the intermediate 

company(ies) involved in the 

transaction. 

For the companies which were not 

selected for individual review (i.e., 

Villacero, Talleres y Aceros, and 

Ternium), we will instruct CBP to assess 

antidumping duties at an ad valorem 

rate equal to the weighted-average 

dumping margin determined for the 

non-examined companies in the final 

results of this review. 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.16

Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 41 days after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review in the Federal Register, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 356.8(a). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication of the notice of final results 

of administrative review for all 

shipments of wire rod from Mexico 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results, as 

provided by section 751(a)(2) of the Act: 

(1) the cash deposit rate for the firms 

listed above will be equal to the 

dumping margins established in the 

final results of this review, except if the 

ultimate rates are de minimis within the 

meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in 

which case the cash deposit rates will 

be zero; (2) for merchandise exported by 

producers or exporters not covered in 

this administrative 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 the producer or 

exporter participated; (3) if the exporter 

is not a firm covered in this review, a 

prior review, or the original less-thanfair-value investigation but the producer 

is, then the cash deposit rate will be the 

rate established for the most recently 

completed segment of the proceeding 

for the producer of the merchandise; 

and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 

producers or exporters will continue to 

be 20.11 percent, the all-others rate 

established in the antidumping duty 

investigation.17 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 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 duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double 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, 19 

CFR 351.213(h)(2), and 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: October 31, 2023. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

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. Whether Application of Facts Available 

and Use of Adverse Inference Is 

Appropriate 

V. Rate for Respondents Not Selected for 

Individual Examination 

VI. Discussion of Methodology 

VII. Currency Conversion 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–106] 

Wooden Cabinet and Vanities and 

Components Thereof From the 

People’s Republic of China: Final 

Results and Final Determination of No 

Shipments of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2021–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

Fujian Dushi Wooden Industry Co., Ltd. 

(Dushi) and The Ancientree Cabinet Co., 

Ltd. (Ancientree) made sales of wooden 

cabinets and vanities and components 

thereof (cabinets) at prices below 

normal value and eight companies had 

no shipments of subject merchandise 

during the period of review (POR) April 

1, 2021, through March 31, 2022. 

DATES: Applicable November 7, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jacob Keller, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4849. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On May 5, 2023, Commerce published 

in the Federal Register the Preliminary 

Results of the antidumping duty 

administrative review and invited 

interested parties to comment.1 For a 

complete description of the events that 

occurred since Commerce published the 

Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum.2 On August 14, 

2023, we extended the deadline for 

these final results to November 1, 2023.3

Commerce conducted this review in 

accordance with section 751(a) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 


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