Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Certain Collated Steel Staples From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determinations of Circumvention With Respect to the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration [A-570-112, C-570-113] ( printed page 57931) AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that imports of certain collated steel staples (collated staples) that were: (1) exported from the Kingdom of Thailand (Thailand) using inputs ( i.e., steel wire and wire band) manufactured in the People's Republic of China (China), and (2) exported from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) using wire band manufactured in China, as specified below, are circumventing the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on collated staples from China. DATES: Applicable August 24, 2023. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Smith (Thailand) and Shane Subler (Vietnam), Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1766 and (202) 482-6241, respectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On July 20, 2020, Commerce published in the Federal Register AD and CVD orders on U.S. imports of collated staples from China. [ 1 ] On December 14, 2022, pursuant to section 781(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.226(d)(1)(ii) , Commerce initiated country-wide circumvention inquiries to determine whether imports of collated staples, completed i…