• Effective Date: Dec 29, 2014
  • Period of Review: Oct 01, 2013 to Mar 31, 2014
  • Cite as: 79 FR 78058 • Cite date: Dec 29, 2014

1. On 12/29/2014, Commerce published in the Federal Register (79 FR 78058) its preliminary determination of sales at less than fair value and the postponement of the final determination in the antidumping duty investigation of certain steel nails from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).

2. The products covered by this investigation are described in message 4177312, dated 06/26/2014.

3. This investigation has been assigned investigation number A-552-818.

4. For imports of certain steel nails from Vietnam, CBP shall suspend liquidation of such shipments entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 12/29/2014. Effective 12/29/2014, CBP shall require, for entries of certain steel nails from Vietnam from the exporter/producer combinations listed below, a cash deposit equal to the antidumping duty cash deposits shown below:

Exporter: Vietnam-Wide Entity
Case number: A-552-818-000
Cash deposit rate: 315.65%

Exporter: Region International Co., Ltd.
Producer: Region Industries Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-552-818-001
Cash deposit rate: 95.54%

Exporter: United Nail Products Co., Ltd.
Producer: United Nail Products Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-552-818- 002
Cash deposit rate: 93.42%

Exporter: Kosteel Vina Limited Company
Producer: Kosteel Vina Limited Company
Case number: A-552-818- 003
Cash deposit rate: 90.31%

The Vietnam-Wide Entity (A-552-818-000), Region International Co., Ltd./Region Industries Co., Ltd. (A-552-818-001), and Kosteel Vina Limited Company/Kosteel Vina Limited Company (A-552-818-003), cash deposit rates have been adjusted for the 8.34 percent export subsidy rate determined in the companion countervailing duty investigation entitled Certain Steel Nails from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty Determination With Final Antidumping Duty Determination, 79 FR 65184 (November 3, 2014).

5. For all other entries of certain steel nails from Vietnam, the following cash deposit instructions apply:

A. For all Vietnam exporters of certain steel nails from Vietnam which have not received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the Vietnam-wide rate.

B. For all non-Vietnam exporters of certain steel nails from Vietnam which have not received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the exporter/producer combinations that supplied that non-Vietnam exporter.

6. If there are any questions by the importing public regarding this message, please contact the Call Center for the Office of AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-0984. CBP ports should submit their inquiries through authorized CBP channels only. (This message was generated by OVI:EAA.)

7. There are no restrictions on the release of this information.

Michael B. Walsh