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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On August 14, 2023, Commerce published its Final Results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy covering the POR July 23, 2020 through December 31, 2021. Commerce calculated a weighted-average dumping margin of 2.97 percent.^[1]

Elwood City Forge Company appealed Commerce's Final Results. On April 28, 2026, the CIT remanded the Final Results to Commerce, directing Commerce to: (1) further explain its determination that Cogne and Ciscato, two producers whose financial statements Commerce used to calculate Lucchini's CV profit, produced merchandise identical to the subject FEBs; and (2) further explain/reconsider its selection of the market-price benchmark used in the major input analysis.^[2]

In its final results of redetermination, issued in July 2026, Commerce reversed both determinations. Commerce excluded Cogne and Ciscato from its CV profit calculation. Commerce also used Company A's U.S. purchases of ingots as the market-price benchmark for its major-input analysis and rejected Lucchini's February 2023 adjustment information as untimely new factual information.^[3] The CIT sustained Commerce's Final Results of Redetermination.^[4]

Timken Notice

In its decision in Timken,^[5] as clarified by Diamond Sawblades,^[6] the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that, pursuant to section 516A(c) and (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), Commerce must publish a notice of court decision that is not “in harmony” with a Commerce determination and must suspend liquidation of entries pending a “conclusive” court decision. The CIT's October 2, 2026, judgment constitutes a final decision of the CIT that is not in harmony with Commerce's Final Results. Thus, this notice is published in fulfillment of the publication requirements of Timken.

Amended Final Results

Because there is now a final court judgment, Commerce is amending its Final Results with respect to Lucchini as follows:

Cash Deposit Requirements

Because Lucchini has a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there have been final results published in a subsequent administrative review,^[7] we will not issue revised cash deposit instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This notice will not affect the current cash deposit rate.

Liquidation of Suspended Entries

At this time, Commerce remains enjoined by CIT order from liquidating entries that: were produced and/or exported by Lucchini, and were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period of review July 23, 2020, through December 31, 2021. These entries will remain enjoined pursuant to the terms of the injunction during the pendency of any appeals process.

In the event the CIT's ruling is not appealed, or, if appealed, upheld by a final and conclusive court decision, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on unliquidated entries of subject merchandise produced and/or exported by Lucchini in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b). We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review when the importer-specific ad valorem assessment rate is not zero or de minimis. Where an import-specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis,^[8] we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 516A(c) and (e) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.