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The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain brake drums (brake drums) from the People's Republic of China (China). The period of investigation is January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023. Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that ceramic tile from India is not being, or is not likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. (Deacero) and I.N.G.E.T.E.K.N.O.S. Estructurales, S.A. de C.V. (Ingetek) (collectively, Deacero Group); and TA 2000 S.A. de C.V. (TA 2000) sold steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this administrative review with respect to certain companies. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on certain steel wheels 12 to 16.5 inches in diameter (steel wheels) from the People's Republic of China (China) would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of countervailable subsidies at the levels indicated in the "Final Results of the Sunset Review" section of this notice.

As a result of this expedited sunset review, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain steel wheels 12 to 16.5 inches in diameter (steel wheels) from the People's Republic of China (China) would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping at the levels indicated in the "Final Results of Sunset Review" section of this notice.

As a result of the determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on laminated woven sacks from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping and net countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, Commerce is publishing this notice of continuation of these AD and CVD orders.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding the administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from the Republic of T[uuml]rkiye (T[uuml]rkiye), covering the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain steel nails (nails) from Taiwan were sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023. Commerce also determines that certain companies under review had no reviewable sales during the POR.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) published a notice in the Federal Register of November 7, 2024, in which Commerce amended the preliminary affirmative countervailing duty (CVD) determination on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules (solar cells), from Malaysia. This notice incorrectly stated that the amended cash deposit rates would be effective retroactively to October 4, 2024, the date of the publication of the Preliminary Determination.

Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing the antidumping duty (AD) orders on aluminum lithographic printing plates (printing plates) from the People's Republic of China (China) and Japan and a countervailing duty (CVD) order on printing plates from China.

Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on ferrosilicon from the Russian Federation (Russia).

On November 7, 2024, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Garg Tube Export LLP and Garg Tube Limited v. United States, Court No. 21-00169, sustaining the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) first and second remand results pertaining to the administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes (pipe and tube) from India covering the period May 1, 2018, through April 30, 2019. Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the administrative review and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to the dumping margin assigned to Garg Tube Limited and Garg Tube Export LLP (collectively, Garg Tube).

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is issuing the final results of changed circumstances reviews (CCRs) of the antidumping duty (AD) order on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from the People's Republic of China and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (collectively, steel threaded rod from China) to revoke the orders, in part, with respect to certain wheel studs. Commerce is also rescinding the scope inquiry with respect to the same products.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) published a notice in the Federal Register of June 9, 2015, in which Commerce announced the preliminary results of the 2013 administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on aluminum extrusions from the People's Republic of China (China). Commerce also published a notice in the Federal Register of December 14, 2015, in which Commerce announced the final results of the 2013 administrative review of the CVD order on aluminum extrusions from China. Lastly, Commerce published notice in the Federal Register of March 22, 2016, in which Commerce amended its final results of the 2013 administrative review of the CVD order on aluminum extrusions from China. This notice addresses the applicable cash deposit and assessment rates for Guangzhou Mingcan Die-Casting Hardware Products Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou Mingcan), which was inadvertently omitted from the notices for this administrative review.

In response to requests from Bull Moose Tube Company, Maruichi American Corporation, Wheatland Tube Company, and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (collectively, the domestic interested parties), the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is initiating a country-wide circumvention inquiry to determine whether circular welded carbon quality steel pipe (CWP) from the People's Republic of China (China), which is completed in the Sultanate of Oman (Oman) from hot-rolled steel (HRS) produced in China, is circumventing the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on CWP from China.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that PT Ecos Jaya Indonesia and PT Grantec Jaya Indonesia (collectively, Ecos/ Grantec) and one non-individually examined company made sales of subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023. Additionally, Commerce determines that PT. Zinus Global Indonesia (Zinus Indonesia) did not make sales of mattresses from Indonesia at prices below NV during the POR. Moreover, we are rescinding this review with respect to one company that withdrew its request for review and 29 companies that had no reviewable entries during the POR.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) published notice in the Federal Register of November 4, 2024, in which Commerce initiated the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations on thermoformed molded fiber products (molded fiber products) from the People's Republic of China (China) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam). There was a typographical error in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings included in the scope of the investigations.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires from India (OTR tires) from India to correct a ministerial error. The period of review (POR) is March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2023.

As a result of the determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on cast iron soil pipe from the People's Republic of China (China) would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping, countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, Commerce is publishing a notice of continuation of these AD and CVD orders.