• Effective Date: Jul 24, 2019
  • Period of Review: Nov 01, 2016 to Oct 31, 2017
  • Cite as: 84 FR 35599 • Cite date: Jul 24, 2019

1. Commerce has published in the Federal Register (84 FR 35599) on 07/24/2019 the final results of its administrative review of certain producers and/or exporters subject to the antidumping duty order on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico for the period 11/1/2016 through 10/31/2017.

2. As a result of Commerce's review, the cash deposit rate has been revised for certain companies. Therefore, for shipments of rebar produced and/or exported by the firms listed below, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 07/24/2019, the required cash deposit has been revised:

Producer and/or Exporter: Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-001
Cash deposit rate: 0.00%

Producer and/or Exporter: Grupo Simec S.A.B. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-003
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%
Note: Commerce previously collapsed Simec International 6 S.A. de C.V., Orge S.A. de C.V. with Grupo Simec. In this administrative review, Commerce collapsed Aceros Especiales Simec Tlaxcala, S.A. de C.V., Fundiciones de Acero Estructurales, S.A. de C.V., Perfiles Comerciales Sigosa, S.A. de C.V., and Operadora de Perfiles Sigosa, S.A. de C.V., and treated these companies as a single entity. The cash deposit rate applies to all of these companies.

Producer and/or Exporter: AceroMex S.A.
Case number: A-201-844-004
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: Cia Siderurgica De California, S.A. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-005
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: Grupo Villacero S.A. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-006
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: Siderurgica Tultitlan S.A. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-008
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: Talleres y Aceros, S.A. de C.V
Case number: A-201-844-009
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: Ternium Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-010
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: ArcelorMittal Lazaro Cardenas S.A. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-011
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: ArcelorMittal Cordoba S.A. de C.V.
Case number: A-201-844-012
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

Producer and/or Exporter: ArcelorMittal Celaya
Case number: A-201-844-013
Cash deposit rate: 3.65%

3. If any entries of merchandise are exported by a firm other than the producer, then the following instructions apply:

A. If the exporter of the subject merchandise has its own rate, use the exporter's rate to determine the cash deposit rate.

B. If the exporter of the subject merchandise does not have its own rate but the producer has its own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the producer's rate.

C. Where neither the exporter nor the producer currently has its own rate or the producer is unknown, use the all-others rate for establishing the cash deposit rate.

4. For all producers/exporters of rebar from Mexico without their own rate, the cash deposit rate is 20.58 percent.

5. These cash deposit requirements shall remain in effect until further notice. Do not liquidate any entries of merchandise covered by the administrative review until specific liquidation instructions are issued.

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 OIII: SM).

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

Alexander Amdur