U.S. Commerce Department Finds Dumping of Forged Steel Fittings from Taiwan
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The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has issued preliminary results in its ongoing administrative review of the antidumping duty order on forged steel fittings from Taiwan. These findings were published in the Federal Register on February 10, 2026.
The review period covers shipments entered into the U.S. between September 1, 2023, and August 31, 2024. Commerce has preliminarily determined that the company Both-Well Steel Fittings Co., Ltd. sold forged steel fittings in the U.S. at prices below normal value.
The weighted-average dumping margin assigned to Both-Well is 3.03 percent.
The preliminary decision was released in a memorandum dated February 4, 2026. A list of discussed topics is included as an appendix attached to the notice. A complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is publicly available on the ACCESS system at https://access.trade.gov.
The scope of the review includes carbon and alloy forged steel fittings from Taiwan. These products include both unfinished (blanks or rough forgings) and finished fittings.
Commerce used sections 772 and 773 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, to calculate export price and normal value.
Commerce will disclose its calculations to interested parties within five days of publication of the notice or its public announcement, as per 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Case briefs may be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance within 21 days. Rebuttal briefs are due five days after case briefs. All briefs require a table of contents and a table of authorities and must be filed electronically using ACCESS.
Each issue in the briefs must contain a public executive summary. This summary must be no more than 450 words, excluding citations. Commerce will use these summaries to prepare the final decision memo.
Requests for a hearing must be submitted electronically within 30 days of this notice. Requests must include the party’s name, telephone number, number of participants, and a list of issues to be discussed. Hearings will only cover issues raised in the briefs.
Commerce expects to release the final results within 120 days of this notice’s publication, unless extended.
Following publication of the final results, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on relevant entries. If a company’s dumping margin or importer-specific rate is zero or de minimis, CBP will be told to liquidate those entries without duties.
If the final results confirm the dumping margin, Both-Well’s importers will receive duty assessment instructions 35 days after final publication, unless a summons is filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Cash deposit requirements will be updated after the final results. Both-Well’s deposit rate will match the final weighted-average dumping margin, unless it is zero or de minimis. If the exporter was reviewed previously, its previous rate remains. If the exporter was not reviewed but the producer was, the rate will reflect the producer’s most recent rate. All other producers and exporters will default to the all-others rate of 116.17 percent.
Importers must file duty reimbursement certificates prior to liquidation, or face possible doubling of duties. This requirement is under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2).
This notice is issued under sections 751(a)(1), 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act, and 19 CFR 351.213 and 351.221(b)(4).
For further details, contact Dennis McClure at (202) 482-5973, U.S. Department of Commerce, Enforcement and Compliance, Office VIII.
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