Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Investigations, Orders, or Reviews: Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of Korea

Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod From the Republic of Korea: Notice of Reopening of, and Intent To Reconsider the Final Results of, Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

DATES:

Applicable August 28, 2026.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On April 07, 2026, Commerce published in the Federal Register the final results of the 2023-2024 administrative review of carbon and alloy steel wire rod (steel wire rod) from the Republic of Korea (Korea). ⁽¹⁾ In the subsequent review, covering the 2024-2025 period of review and in which POSCO/POSCO International Corporation was again the sole mandatory respondent, Commerce received and placed on the record a submission of evidence indicating potential false statements made in the ongoing 2024-2025, and previously completed 2023-2024, administrative reviews of steel wire rod from Korea. ⁽²⁾

The Federal Circuit has held that "Commerce possesses an inherent authority to protect the integrity of its yearly administrative review decisions, and to reconsider such decisions on proper notice and within a reasonable time after learning of information indicating that the decision may have been tainted by fraud."  ⁽³⁾ Accordingly, Commerce is reopening the 2023-2024 antidumping duty administrative review, reopening the record, and reconsidering those final results in light of new evidence of possible fraud potentially affecting the integrity of those final results. At this time, Commerce is not soliciting information or comments from interested parties. Commerce intends to issue a memorandum informing parties of the procedural steps for this reconsideration, including time periods to provide information or comments, as Commerce determines necessary.

Commerce intends to notify U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation of entries covered by the 2023-2024 administrative review during its reconsideration. At the conclusion of its reconsideration, Commerce intends to issue new assessment instructions, if appropriate, no earlier than 35 days after the date of publication of the reconsideration of review in the Federal Register . Furthermore, if the cash deposit rate is revised as a result of this reconsideration and it has not yet been superseded by a subsequent review, Commerce intends to update the cash deposit rate.

Notification to Interested Parties

This notice is issued and published consistent with the Federal Circuit's holding in TKS, 529 F.3d at 1361-62.

⁽¹⁾ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 91 FR 17630 (April 7, 2026) ( Final Results ).

⁽²⁾ See Memorandum, "Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the Republic of Korea: Fraud Allegation," dated August 10, 2026.

⁽³⁾ See Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd. v. United States, 529 F.3d 1352, 1361-62 (Fed. Cir. 2008) ( TKS ).