International Trade Administration July 22, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) has preliminarily assigned Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the sole respondent subject to this antidumping duty (AD) administrative review, an AD margin based upon the application of total adverse facts available (AFA). The period of review (POR) is July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020.

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion resistant steel products (CORE) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) to correct a ministerial error with respect to Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. (Dongkuk)'s final margin rate. The period of review is July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019.

On July 12, 2021, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Fastenal Company Purchasing v. United States, Court No. 17-00269, sustaining the Department of Commerce (Commerce)'s remand redetermination pertaining to a scope ruling in which Commerce found Fastenal Company Purchasing's (Fastenal's) zinc and nylon anchors to be outside the scope of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain steel nails (nails) from the People's Republic of China (China). Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's scope ruling, and that Commerce is amending the scope ruling to find that zinc and nylon anchors are not covered by the order.