Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Circumvention of the Antidumping Duty Order on Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the People's Republic of China and the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Steel Wire Garment Hangers From 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-570-918; A-552-812; C-552-813] AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that imports of steel wire garment hangers (hangers), completed in Cambodia using: (1) steel wire or (2) steel wire and paper accessories, produced in the People's Republic of China (China) or the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam), are circumventing the antidumping duty (AD) order on hangers from China, or the AD and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on hangers from Vietnam. Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination. DATES: Applicable September 22, 2026. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Braeden Lowe, AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-9124. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On October 6, 2008 and February 5, 2013, Commerce published in the Federal Register the AD order on hangers from China, [ 1 ] and the AD and CVD orders on hangers from Vietnam, respectively. [ 2 ] On August 12, 2025, Commerce initiated country-wide circumvention inquiries pursuant to section 781(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), to determine whether imports of hangers completed in Cambodia using: (1) steel wire or (2) steel wire a…