Bahrain Aluminum Review Delayed by Shutdowns
Published Date: 7/13/2026
Notice
Summary
The U.S. Department of Commerce found that Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill (GARMCO) from Bahrain sold aluminum sheets at unfairly low prices between April 2024 and March 2025. This means antidumping duties might change, affecting importers and sellers of these aluminum sheets. The review results are preliminary, with deadlines pushed back due to government shutdowns, so stay tuned for final decisions and possible cost impacts.
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 5 costs, 0 mixed.
Reimbursement Certificate Requirement and Penalty Risk
Importers must file a certificate regarding reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period, as required by 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2). If you fail to file this certificate, Commerce may presume reimbursement occurred and could assess double antidumping duties and/or increase antidumping duties by the amount of countervailing duties.
Preliminary 6.25% Dumping Margin
Commerce preliminarily found that Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill (GARMCO) dumped common alloy aluminum sheet and calculated a 6.25% weighted-average dumping margin for the period April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025. This preliminary finding (published July 13, 2026) means duties may be applied to affected imports if the final results confirm this margin.
How Importer Assessment Rates Are Calculated
If the final dumping margin is not zero or de minimis (defined as less than 0.50 percent), Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping for an importer's examined sales to the entered value of those sales. Where entered values are not available for all U.S. sales to an importer, Commerce will calculate an importer-specific per-unit assessment rate using the ratio of the total amount of dumping to the total quantity of those sales.
Cash Deposit Rules After Final Results
If imposed, cash deposit requirements will apply to shipments entered or withdrawn for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of this review. The cash deposit rate for the listed company will be the rate established in the final results (unless it is less than 0.50% and therefore set to zero); previously reviewed companies keep their most recent published rate; if the exporter is not covered but the manufacturer is, the manufacturer's rate applies; and the all-others rate remains 4.83 percent.
Automatic Assessment for Unknown-U.S.-Destination Entries
For entries during the period of review that were produced by GARMCO and for which GARMCO did not know the merchandise was destined for the United States, Commerce intends to instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to liquidate those entries at the investigation's all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company. The all-others rate established in the investigation is 4.83 percent.
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