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1See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products 

from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of Countervailing 

Duty Investigations, 89 FR 80204 (October 2, 2024) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products 

from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Postponement of Preliminary 

Determinations in the Countervailing Duty 

Investigations, 89 FR 89955 (November 14, 2024). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination of the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain 

Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Mexico,’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997) 

(Preamble). 

5See Initiation Notice, 89 FR at 80205. 

6The deadline for interested parties to submit 

scope case and rebuttal briefs will be established in 

the preliminary scope decision memorandum. 

7See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

Exporter 

Estimated 

weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Apia ́rio Diamante Comercial Exportadora Ltda/Apia ́rio Diamante Produc ̧a ̃o e Comercial de Mel Ltda (Supermel) ................. 10.52 

All Others ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 9.38 

Amended AD Order 

Pursuant to 735(c)(2) of the Act, 

Commerce shall ‘‘issue an antidumping 

duty order under section 736(a)’’ of the 

Act when the final determination is 

affirmative. As a result of this amended 

final determination, Commerce is 

hereby amending the Order to revise the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins assigned to Supermel and allother producers and/or exporters of 

subject merchandise, as noted above. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

Because Supermel does not have a 

superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there 

have been no final results published in 

a subsequent administrative review, and 

because of the change to the rate 

assigned to all other producers and 

exporters of subject merchandise, 

Commerce will issue revised cash 

deposit instructions to U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 516A(c) and 

(e) and 777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: February 4, 2025. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–201–864] 

Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel 

Products From Mexico: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, and Alignment of Final 

Determination With Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of certain 

corrosion-resistant steel products 

(CORE) from Mexico. The period of 

investigation is January 1, 2023, through 

December 31, 2023. Interested parties 

are invited to comment on this 

preliminary determination. 

DATES: Applicable February 10, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Drew Jackson or Maria Teresa 

Aymerich, AD/CVD Operations, Office 

IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4406 or 

(202) 482–0499, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 703(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). On October 2, 2024, 

Commerce published the notice of 

initiation of this countervailing duty 

(CVD) investigation.1 On November 14, 

2024, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination until 

February 3, 2025.2

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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 Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are CORE from Mexico. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the Preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,4 the Initiation 

Notice set aside a period of time for 

parties to raise issues regarding product 

coverage, (i.e., scope).5 Certain 

interested parties commented on the 

scope of the investigation as it appeared 

in the Initiation Notice. Commerce 

intends to issue its preliminary decision 

regarding comments concerning the 

scope of the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 

and CVD investigations in the 

preliminary determination of the 

companion LTFV investigations. We 

will incorporate the scope decisions 

from the LTFV investigations into the 

scope of the final CVD determination for 

this investigation after considering any 

relevant comments submitted in scope 

case and rebuttal briefs.6

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy 

programs found countervailable, 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial 

contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.7 For a 

full description of the methodology 

underlying our preliminary 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Alignment 

In accordance with section 705(a)(1) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(4), 

Commerce is aligning the final CVD 

determination in this investigation with 

the final determination in the 

concurrent LTFV investigation of CORE 


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8See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Request to Align the 

Final Determination,’’ dated January 6, 2025. 

9As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce has found the following 

companies to be cross-owned with Ternium 

Mexico, S.A. de C.V.: Ferropak Comercial, S.A. de 

C.V., Las Encinas, S.A. de C.V., Consorcio Minero 

Benito Juarez Pen ̃ a Colorada, S.A. de C.V., Techgen, 

S.A. de C.V., Tenigal, S.A. de C.V., and Ternium 

Gas Mexico, S.A. de C.V. 

10As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce has found the following 

companies to be cross-owned with Galvasid, S.A. 

de C.V.: Perfiles LM, S.A. de C.V., Indalum, S.A. de 

C.V., and Grupo Industrial LM, S.A. de C.V. 

11See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative 

Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 

88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) (APO and 

Service Final Rule). 12See 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 13We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an 

argument that Commerce would normally address 

in a comment of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

14See APO and Service Final Rule. 

from Mexico, based on a request made 

by the petitioners.8 Consequently, this 

final CVD determination will be issued 

on the same date as the final 

determination for the LTFV 

investigation, which is currently 

scheduled to be issued no later than 

June 17, 2025, unless postponed. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 703(d) and 705(c)(5)(A) of 

the Act provide that, in the preliminary 

determination, Commerce shall 

determine an estimated all-others rate 

for companies not individually 

examined. This rate shall be an amount 

equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated subsidy rates established for 

those companies individually 

examined, excluding any rates that are 

zero, de minimis, or based entirely 

under section 776 of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

preliminarily found a zero rate for 

Galvasid. Therefore, the only rate that is 

not zero, de minimis or based entirely 

on facts otherwise available is the rate 

calculated for Ternium. Consequently, 

the rate calculated for Ternium is also 

assigned as the rate for all other 

producers and exporters. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates exist: 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

Ternium Mexico, S.A. de 

C.V.9 .................................. 1.56 

Galvasid S.A. de C.V.10 ....... 0.00 

All Others .............................. 1.56 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations and analysis performed to 

interested parties in this preliminary 

determination within five days of its 

public announcement, or if there is no 

public announcement, within five days 

of the date of this notice in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Consistent with 19 CFR 351.224(e), 

Commerce will analyze and, if 

appropriate, correct any timely 

allegations of significant ministerial 

errors by amending the preliminary 

determination. However, consistent 

with 19 CFR 351.224(d), Commerce will 

not consider incomplete allegations that 

do not address the significance standard 

under 19 CFR 351.224(g) following the 

preliminary determination. Instead, 

Commerce will address such allegations 

in the final determination together with 

issues raised in the case briefs or other 

written comments. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with sections 

703(d)(1)(B) and (d)(2) of the Act, 

Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 

liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise as described in the scope 

of the investigation section entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. Further, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.205(d), Commerce will instruct CBP 

to require a cash deposit equal to the 

rates indicated above. Because the 

subsidy rate for Galvasid is zero, 

Commerce is directing CBP not to 

suspend liquidation of entries of the 

merchandise from this company. 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination. 

Public Comment 

All interested parties will have the 

opportunity to submit scope case and 

rebuttal briefs on the preliminary 

decision regarding the scope of the 

LTFV and CVD investigations. The 

deadlines to submit scope case and 

rebuttal briefs will be provided in the 

preliminary scope decision 

memorandum. For all scope case and 

rebuttal briefs, parties must file 

identical documents simultaneously on 

the records of the ongoing LTFV and 

CVD CORE investigations. No new 

factual information or business 

proprietary information may be 

included in either scope case or rebuttal 

briefs. 

Case briefs or other written 

comments, excluding scope comments, 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than seven days 

after the date on which the last 

verification report is issued in this 

investigation. Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

issues raised in the case briefs, may be 

filed not later than five days after the 

date for filing case briefs.11 Interested 

parties who submit case or rebuttal 

briefs in this proceeding must submit: 

(1) a table of contents listing each issue; 

and (2) a table of authorities.12

As provided under 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior 

proceedings we have encouraged 

interested parties to provide an 

executive summary of their brief that 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. In this 

investigation, we instead request that 

interested parties provide at the 

beginning of their briefs a public, 

executive summary for each issue raised 

in their briefs.13 Further, we request that 

interested parties limit their executive 

summary of each issue to no more than 

450 words, not including citations. We 

intend to use the executive summaries 

as the basis of the comment summaries 

included in the issues and decision 

memorandum that will accompany the 

final determination in this investigation. 

We request that interested parties 

include footnotes for relevant citations 

in the executive summary of each issue. 

Note that Commerce has amended 

certain of its requirements pertaining to 

the service of documents in 19 CFR 

351.303(f).14

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 within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants and whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and 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. Parties should 

confirm by telephone the date, time, and 

location of the hearing two days before 

the scheduled date. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

(ITC) Notification 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the ITC 

of its determination. If the final 


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determination is affirmative, the ITC 

will determine before the later of 120 

days after the date of this preliminary 

determination or 45 days after the final 

determination whether imports of CORE 

from Mexico are materially injuring, or 

threaten material injury to, the U.S. 

industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 703(f) 

and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.205(c). 

Dated: February 3, 2025. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this investigation 

are certain flat-rolled steel products, either 

clad, plated, or coated with corrosionresistant metals such as zinc, aluminum, or 

zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-based 

alloys, whether or not corrugated or painted, 

varnished, laminated, or coated with plastics 

or other non-metallic substances in addition 

to the metallic coating. The products covered 

include coils that have a width of 12.7 mm 

or greater, regardless of form of coil (e.g., in 

successively superimposed layers, spirally 

oscillating, etc.). The products covered also 

include products not in coils (e.g., in straight 

lengths) of a thickness less than 4.75 mm and 

a width that is 12.7 mm or greater and that 

measures at least 10 times the thickness. The 

products covered also include products not 

in coils (e.g., in straight lengths) of a 

thickness of 4.75 mm or more and a width 

exceeding 150 mm and measuring at least 

twice the thickness. The products described 

above may be rectangular, square, circular, or 

other shape and include products of either 

rectangular or non-rectangular cross-section 

where such cross-section is achieved 

subsequent to the rolling process, i.e., 

products which have been ‘‘worked after 

rolling’’ (e.g., products which have been 

beveled or rounded at the edges). 

For purposes of the width and thickness 

requirements referenced above: 

(1) Where the nominal and actual 

measurements vary, a product is within the 

scope if application of either the nominal or 

actual measurement would place it within 

the scope based on the definitions set forth 

above, and 

(2) where the width and thickness vary for 

a specific product (e.g., the thickness of 

certain products with non-rectangular crosssection, the width of certain products with 

non-rectangular shape, etc.), the 

measurement at its greatest width or 

thickness applies. 

Steel products included in the scope of this 

investigation are products in which: (1) iron 

predominates, by weight, over each of the 

other contained elements; and (2) the carbon 

content is 2 percent or less, by weight. 

Subject merchandise also includes corrosionresistant steel that has been further processed 

in a third country, including but not limited 

to annealing, tempering, painting, varnishing, 

trimming, cutting, punching and/or slitting 

or any other processing that would not 

otherwise remove the merchandise from the 

scope of the investigations if performed in 

the country of manufacture of the in-scope 

corrosion resistant steel. 

All products that meet the written physical 

description are within the scope of this 

investigation unless specifically excluded. 

The following products are outside of and/or 

specifically excluded from the scope of this 

investigation: 

• Flat-rolled steel products either plated or 

coated with tin, lead, chromium, chromium 

oxides (‘‘tin free steel’’), whether or not 

painted, varnished or coated with plastics or 

other nonmetallic substances in addition to 

the metallic coating; 

• Clad products in straight lengths of 

4.7625 mm or more in composite thickness 

and of a width which exceeds 150 mm and 

measures at least twice the thickness; 

• Certain clad stainless flat-rolled 

products, which are three-layered corrosionresistant carbon steel flat-rolled products less 

than 4.75 mm in composite thickness that 

consist of a carbon steel flat-rolled product 

clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 

20%–60%–20% ratio; and 

Also excluded from the scope of the 

antidumping duty investigation on corrosion 

resistant steel from Taiwan are any products 

covered by the existing antidumping duty 

order on corrosion-resistant steel from 

Taiwan. See Certain Corrosion-Resistant 

Steel Products from India, Italy, the People’s 

Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and 

Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative 

Antidumping Determination for India and 

Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 

FR 48390 (July 25, 2016); Corrosion-Resistant 

Steel Products from Taiwan: Notice of Third 

Amended Final Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value Pursuant to Court 

Decision and Partial Exclusion from 

Antidumping Duty Order, 88 FR 58245 

(August 25, 2023). 

Also excluded from the scope of the 

antidumping duty investigation on corrosionresistant steel from the United Arab Emirates 

and the antidumping duty and countervailing 

duty investigations on corrosion-resistant 

steel from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 

are any products covered by the existing 

antidumping and countervailing duty orders 

on corrosion-resistant steel from the People’s 

Republic of China and the Republic of Korea 

and the antidumping duty order on 

corrosion-resistant steel from Taiwan. See 

Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products 

from India, Italy, the People’s Republic of 

China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan: 

Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping 

Determination for India and Taiwan, and 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390 (July 

25, 2016); see also Certain CorrosionResistant Steel Products from India, Italy, 

Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic 

of China: Countervailing Duty Order, 81 FR 

48387 (July 25, 2016). This exclusion does 

not apply to imports of corrosion-resistant 

steel that are entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption in the United 

States for which the relevant importer and 

exporter certifications have been completed 

and maintained and all other applicable 

certification requirements have been met 

such that the entry is entered into the United 

States as not subject to the antidumping and 

countervailing duty orders on corrosionresistant steel from the People’s Republic of 

China, the antidumping and countervailing 

duty orders on corrosion-resistant steel from 

the Republic of Korea, or the antidumping 

duty order on corrosion-resistant steel from 

Taiwan. 

The products subject to the investigation 

are currently classified in the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

under item numbers: 7210.30.0030, 

7210.30.0060, 7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 

7210.49.0040, 7210.49.0045, 7210.49.0091, 

7210.49.0095, 7210.61.0000, 7210.69.0000, 

7210.70.6030, 7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 

7210.90.6000, 7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000, 

7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090, 7212.30.3000, 

7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 

7212.50.0000, 7212.60.0000, 7225.91.0000, 

7225.92.0000, 7226.99.0110, and 

7226.99.0130. 

The products subject to the investigations 

may also enter under the following HTSUS 

item numbers: 7210.90.1000, 7215.90.1000, 

7215.90.3000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500, 

7217.30.1530, 7217.30.1560, 7217.90.1000, 

7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060, 7217.90.5090, 

7225.99.0090, 7226.99.0180, 7228.60.6000, 

7228.60.8000, and 7229.90.1000. 

The HTSUS subheadings above are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes only. The written description of the 

scope of the investigations is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Injury Test 

IV. Subsidies Valuation 

V. Benchmark Interest Rates and Discount 

Rates 

VI. Analysis of Programs 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–351–863] 

Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel 

Products From Brazil: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, and Alignment of Final 

Determination With Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 


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