Silicon Metal From Angola and the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Antidumping Duty Orders

• Citation: 91 FR 20410
• Published date: 16 April 2026
• FR Document: 2026-07465
• Pages: 20410-20412
• Section: Notices
• Issuer: Commerce Department,International Trade Administration

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See Silicon Metal from Angola: Final

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than

Fair Value and Classification of Angola as a Non-

Market Economy, 91 FR 8419 (February 23, 2026);

see also Silicon Metal from the Lao People’s

Democratic Republic: Final Affirmative

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and

Classification of the Lao People’s Democratic

Republic as a Non-Market Economy, 91 FR 8407

(February 23, 2026).

2

See ITC’s Letter, ‘‘Notification of ITC Final

Determination,’’ dated April 6, 2026.

3

Id.

4

See Silicon Metal from Angola: Preliminary

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than

Fair Value, 90 FR 46810 (September 30, 2025),

corrected by Silicon Metal from Angola: Preliminary

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than

Fair Value; Correction, 90 FR 52913 (November 24,

2025); see also Silicon Metal from the Lao People’s

Democratic Republic: Preliminary Affirmative

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 90

FR 46807 (September 30, 2025) (collectively, LFTV

Prelim Determinations).

Producers/exporters

Net

countervailable

subsidy rate

(percent

ad valorem)

Leicong Industrial Com-

pany, Ltd ....................... 17.12

All Others .......................... 8.61

Notification Regarding Administrative

Protective Orders

This notice also serves as the only

reminder to parties subject to

administrative protective order (APO) of

their responsibility concerning the

return or destruction of proprietary

information disclosed under APO in

accordance with 19 CFR 351.305.

Timely notification of the return or

destruction of APO materials, or

conversion to judicial protective, orders

is hereby requested. Failure to comply

with the regulations and terms of an

APO is a violation which is subject to

sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

We are issuing and publishing these

final results in accordance with sections

751(c), 752(b), and 777(i)(1) of the Act,

and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(5)(ii).

Dated: April 14, 2026.

Scot Fullerton,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty

Operations.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and

Decision Memorandum

I. Summary

II. Background

III. Scope of the Orders

IV. History of the Orders

V. Legal Framework

VI. Discussion of the Issues

1. Likelihood of Continuation or

Recurrence of a Countervailable Subsidy

2. Net Countervailable Subsidy Rates

Likely to Prevail

3. Nature of the Subsidies

VII. Final Results of Sunset Reviews

VIII. Recommendation

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–762–001, A–553–001]

Silicon Metal From Angola and the Lao

People’s Democratic Republic:

Antidumping Duty Orders

AGENCY

: Enforcement and Compliance,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY

: Based on affirmative final

determinations by the U.S. Department

of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S.

International Trade Commission (ITC),

Commerce is issuing antidumping duty

(AD) orders on silicon metal from

Angola and the Lao People’s Democratic

Republic (Laos).

DATES

: Applicable April 16, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

:

Christopher Doyle (Angola) or Caroline

Carroll (Laos), AD/CVD Operations,

Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5882 or

(202) 482–4948, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

:

Background

On February 23, 2026, Commerce

published its affirmative final

determinations in the less than fair

value (LTFV) investigations of silicon

metal from Angola and Laos, in

accordance with sections 735(d) and

777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended (the Act).

1

On April 6, 2026,

pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act,

the ITC notified Commerce of its final

affirmative determinations that an

industry in the United States is

materially injured by reason of dumped

imports of silicon metal from Angola

and Laos, within the meaning of section

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.

2

Scope of the Orders

The product covered by these orders

is silicon metal from Angola and Laos.

For a complete description of the scope

of the orders, see the appendix to this

notice.

AD Orders

As noted above, on April 6, 2026, in

accordance with section 735(d) of the

Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its

final determination that an industry in

the United States is materially injured

within the meaning of section

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of

LTFV imports of silicon metal from

Angola and Laos.

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Therefore, in

accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and

736 of the Act, Commerce is issuing

these AD orders. Because the ITC

determined that imports of silicon metal

from Angola and Laos are materially

injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated

entries of such merchandise from

Angola and Laos, entered or withdrawn

from warehouse for consumption, are

subject to the assessment of

antidumping duties.

Therefore, in accordance with section

736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce intends

to direct U.S. Customs and Border

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further

instruction by Commerce, antidumping

duties equal to the amount by which the

normal value (NV) of the merchandise

exceeds the export price (EP) (or

constructed export price (CEP)) of the

merchandise on all relevant entries of

silicon metal from Angola and Laos.

Antidumping duties will be assessed on

unliquidated entries of silicon metal

from Angola and Laos entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after September 30,

2025, the date of publication of the

LFTV Preliminary Determinations,

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but

will not include entries occurring after

the expiration of the provisional

measures period and before publication

of the ITC’s final injury determination,

as further described below.

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash

Deposits

Except as noted in the ‘‘Provisional

Measures’’ section of this notice,

Commerce intends to instruct CBP to

reinstitute the suspension of liquidation

of silicon metal from Angola and Laos,

effective on the date of publication of

the ITC’s final affirmative injury

determination in the Federal Register,

and to assess, upon further instruction

by Commerce, pursuant to section

736(a)(1) of the Act, antidumping duties

on each entry of subject merchandise

equal to the amount by which the NV

of the merchandise exceeds the EP (or

CEP) of the merchandise. These

instructions suspending liquidation will

remain in effect until further notice.

Commerce also intends to instruct

CBP to require cash deposits equal to

the estimated weighted-average

dumping margins indicated in the table

below. Accordingly, effective on the

date of publication in the Federal

Register of the notice of the ITC’s final

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See Silicon Metal from the Lao People’s

Democratic Republic: Final Affirmative

Countervailing Duty Determination, 91 FR 8425,

8426 (February 23, 2026).

6

See Regulations to Improve Administration and

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing

Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021)

(Final Rule).

7

See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR

53205 (September 27, 2021) (Procedural Guidance).

8

This segment will be combined with the

ACCESS Segment Specific Information (SSI) field

which will display the month in which the notice

of the order or suspended investigation was

published in the Federal Register, also known as

the anniversary month. For example, for an order

under case number A–000–000 that was published

in the Federal Register in January, the relevant

segment and SSI combination will appear in

ACCESS as ‘‘AISL-January Anniversary.’’ Note that

there will be only one annual inquiry service list

segment per case number, and the anniversary

month will be pre-populated in ACCESS.

9

See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206.

10

See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.

affirmative injury determination, CBP

will require, at the same time as

importers would normally deposit

estimated customs duties on subject

merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the

rates listed in the table below. The

relevant rate for the Angola-wide and

Laos-wide entities, as applicable, apply

to all producers and exporters not

specifically listed. These cash deposit

requirements will remain in effect until

further notice.

To determine the cash deposit rate

where there is a companion

countervailing duty (CVD) proceeding,

Commerce normally adjusts the

estimated weighted-average dumping

margin by the amount of export

subsidies countervailed in the CVD

proceeding, when CVD provisional

measures are in effect. Accordingly,

where Commerce has made a final

affirmative determination for

countervailable export subsidies,

Commerce offsets the estimated

weighted-average dumping margin by

the appropriate CVD rate. However,

because Commerce based its final CVD

determination for Laos on adverse facts

available, we do not find that there are

any export subsidies in the companion

CVD investigation to use as an offset for

the Laos AD cash deposit rates.

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Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping

Margins

The estimated weighted-average

dumping margins are as follows:

A

NGOLA

Producer/exporter

Weighted-

average

dumping

margin

(percent)

PC Silicon Co. Limited ............... * 68.45

Wanhongda International Limited * 68.45

All Others .................................... 68.45

* This rate is based on facts available with

adverse inferences.

L

AOS

Producer/exporter

Weighted-

average

dumping

margin

(percent)

Lao Silicon Co., Ltd .................... * 94.44

All Others .................................... 94.44

* This rate is based on facts available with

adverse inferences.

Provisional Measures

Section 733(d) of the Act states that

suspension of liquidation pursuant to an

affirmative preliminary determination

may not remain in effect for more than

four months, except where exporters

representing a significant proportion of

exports of the subject merchandise

request that Commerce extend the four-

month period to no more than six

months. In the underlying

investigations, Commerce published the

LFTV Preliminary Determinations on

September 30, 2025. Thus, the four-

month period beginning on the date of

the publication of the LFTV Preliminary

Determinations ended on January 27,

2026. As a result, entries of silicon

metal from Angola and Laos made on or

after January 28, 2026, are not subject to

the assessment of antidumping duties.

Therefore, in accordance with section

736(a)(1) of the Act and our practice,

Commerce instructed CBP to terminate

the suspension of liquidation and to

liquidate, without regard to

antidumping duties, unliquidated

entries of silicon metal from Angola and

Laos entered, or withdrawn from

warehouse, for consumption on or after

January 28, 2026, the day on which the

provisional measures expired.

Suspension of liquidation and the

collection of cash deposits will resume

on the date of publication of the ITC’s

final determination in the Federal

Register.

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry

Service Lists

On September 20, 2021, Commerce

published the Final Rule in the Federal

Register.

6

On September 27, 2021,

Commerce also published the

Procedural Guidance in the Federal

Register.

7

The Final Rule and

Procedural Guidance provide that

Commerce will maintain an annual

inquiry service list for each order or

suspended investigation, and any

interested party submitting a scope

ruling application or request for

circumvention inquiry shall serve a

copy of the application or request on the

persons on the annual inquiry service

list for that order, as well as any

companion order covering the same

merchandise from the same country of

origin.

In accordance with the Procedural

Guidance, for orders published in the

Federal Register after November 4,

2021, Commerce will create an annual

inquiry service list segment in

Commerce’s online e-filing and

document management system,

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty

Electronic Service System (ACCESS),

available at https://access.trade.gov,

within five business days of publication

of the notice of the order. Each annual

inquiry service list will be saved in

ACCESS, under each case number, and

under a specific segment type called

‘‘AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.’’

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Interested parties who wish to be

added to the annual inquiry service list

for an order must submit an entry of

appearance to the annual inquiry

service list segment for the order in

ACCESS within 30 days after the date of

publication of the order. For ease of

administration, Commerce requests that

law firms with more than one attorney

representing interested parties in an

order designate a lead attorney to be

included on the annual inquiry service

list. Commerce will finalize the annual

inquiry service list within five business

days thereafter. As mentioned in the

Procedural Guidance,

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the new annual

inquiry service list will be in place until

the following year, when the

Opportunity Notice for the anniversary

month of the order is published.

Commerce may update an annual

inquiry service list at any time as

needed based on interested parties’

amendments to their entries of

appearance to remove or otherwise

modify their list of members and

representatives, or to update contact

information. Any changes or

announcements pertaining to these

procedures will be posted to the

ACCESS website at https://

access.trade.gov.

Special Instructions for the Petitioner

and Foreign Governments

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated

that, ‘‘after an initial request and

placement on the annual inquiry service

list, both petitioners and foreign

governments will automatically be

placed on the annual inquiry service list

in the years that follow.’’

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The petitioners in these proceedings are

Ferroglobe USA, Inc. and Mississippi Silicon LLC

(collectively, the petitioners).

1

See Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate

from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023–

2024, 90 FR 44008 (September 11, 2025)

(Preliminary Results), and accompanying

Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).

2

In a prior segment of this proceeding, Commerce

found that POSCO, POSCO International

Corporation, POSCO Mobility Solution ((POSCO

MS), formerly known as POSCO SPS), and certain

distributors and service centers (Taechang Steel Co.,

Ltd. and Winsteel Co., Ltd.) are affiliated pursuant

to section 771(33)(E) of the Act, and further that

these companies should be treated as a single entity

(collectively, the POSCO single entity) pursuant to

19 CFR 351.401(f). See Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-

To-Length Plate from the Republic of Korea: Final

Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative

review; 2019–2020, 87 FR 6483 (February 4, 2022).

No changes to the relationship among these entities

was reported for this POR; therefore, no change to

our affiliation/collapsing finding is warranted.

3

See Memorandum, ‘‘Deadlines Affected by the

Shutdown of the Federal Government,’’ dated

November 14, 2025.

4

See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of all Case

Deadlines,’’ dated November 24, 2025.

5

See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review,’’ dated March 18, 2026.

6

See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision

Memorandum for the Final Results in the

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of

Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from the

Republic of Korea; 2023–2024,’’ dated concurrently

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and

Decision Memorandum).

7

See Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-

Length Plate from Austria, Belgium, France, the

Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the

Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: Amended Final

Affirmative Antidumping Determinations for

France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the

Republic of Korea and Taiwan, and Antidumping

Duty Orders, 82 FR 24096 (May 25, 2017) (Order).

8

See Issues and Decision Memorandum at 2.

Accordingly, as stated above, the

petitioners

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and foreign governments

should submit their initial entries of

appearance after publication of this

notice in order to appear in the first

annual inquiry service lists for these

orders. Pursuant to 19 CFR

351.225(n)(3), the petitioners and

foreign governments will not need to

resubmit their entries of appearance

each year to continue to be included on

the annual inquiry service list.

However, the petitioners and foreign

governments are responsible for making

amendments to their entries of

appearance during the annual update to

the annual inquiry service list in

accordance with the procedures

described above.

Notification to Interested Parties

This notice constitutes the AD orders

with respect to silicon metal from

Angola and Laos, pursuant to section

736(a) of the Act. Interested parties can

find a list of AD and CVD orders

currently in effect at https://

www.trade.gov/datavisualization/

adcvd-proceedings.

These AD orders are published in

accordance with section 736(a) of the

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).

Dated: April 13, 2026.

Christopher Abbott,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and

Negotiations, performing the non-exclusive

functions and duties of the Assistant

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Scope of the Orders

The scope of these orders covers all forms

and sizes of silicon metal, including silicon

metal powder. Silicon metal contains at least

85.00 percent but less than 99.99 percent

silicon, and less than 4.00 percent iron, by

actual weight. Semiconductor grade silicon

(merchandise containing at least 99.99

percent silicon by actual weight and

classifiable under Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)

subheading 2804.61.0000) is excluded from

the scope of these orders.

Silicon metal is currently classifiable

under subheadings 2804.69.1000 and

2804.69.5000 of the HTSUS. While the

HTSUS numbers are provided for

convenience and customs purposes, the

written description of the scope remains

dispositive.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–887]

Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length

Plate from the Republic of Korea: Final

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review; 2023–2024

AGENCY

: Enforcement and Compliance,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY

: The U.S. Department of

Commerce (Commerce) determines that

POSCO, POSCO International

Corporation, POSCO Mobility Solution,

Taechang Steel Co., Ltd. and Winsteel

Co., Ltd. (collectively, the POSCO single

entity), the sole exporter subject to this

administrative review, did not make

sales of certain carbon and alloy steel

cut-to-length plate (CTL plate) from the

Republic of Korea (Korea) at less than

normal value during the period of

review (POR) May 1, 2023, through

April 30, 2024.

DATES

: Applicable April 16, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

:

Jaron Moore, AD/CVD Operations,

Office VIII, Enforcement and

Compliance, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:

(202) 482–3640.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

:

Background

On September 11, 2025, Commerce

published the preliminary results in this

administrative review in the Federal

Register.

1

We provided interested

parties with an opportunity to comment

on the Preliminary Results, and only the

mandatory respondent, the POSCO

single entity,

2

submitted comments.

Due to the lapse in appropriations and

Federal Government shutdown, on

November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled

all deadlines in administrative

proceedings by 47 days.

3

Additionally,

due to a backlog of documents that were

electronically filed via Enforcement and

Compliance’s Antidumping and

Countervailing Duty Centralized

Electronic Service System (ACCESS)

during the Federal Government

shutdown, on November 24, 2025,

Commerce tolled all deadlines in

administrative proceedings by an

additional 21 days.

4

On March 18, 2026,

Commerce extended the deadline for the

final results by 30 days.

5

Accordingly,

the deadline for this final determination

is now April 17, 2026.

A summary of the events that

occurred since Commerce published the

Preliminary Results, as well as a full

discussion of the issues raised by parties

for these final results, are discussed in

the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

6

The Issues and Decision Memorandum

is a public document and is on file

electronically via ACCESS. ACCESS is

available to registered users at https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete

version of the Issues and Decision

Memorandum can be accessed directly

at https://access.trade.gov/public/

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

Commerce conducted this review in

accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the

Act).

Scope of the Order

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The product covered by the Order is

CTL plate from Korea. For a complete

description of the scope of the Order,

see the Issues and Decision

Memorandum.

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Analysis of Comments Received

All issues raised in the case brief field

by the POSCO single entity are listed in

the appendix to this notice and

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