# 2026-15997: UAE nails dumped cheap, 18 firms off the hook

2026-15997, Certain Steel Nails From the United Arab Emirates: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025, is a Federal Register notice from Commerce Department, International Trade Administration published 2026-08-06, effective 2026-08-06; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-13).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15997
- As of: 2026-08-13
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2026-15997
- Title: Certain Steel Nails From the United Arab Emirates: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Commerce Department; International Trade Administration
- Citation: 91 FR 50795
- Published: 2026-08-06
- Effective: 2026-08-06
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-08-13

## In one line

UAE nails dumped cheap, 18 firms off the hook

## Summary

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that sales of certain steel nails (steel nails) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were made at less than normal value (NV). The period of review (POR) is May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this administrative review, in part, with respect to 18 companies that had no entries of the subject merchandise during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

## Effects PRIA read

- Preliminary 1.42% Dumping Margin: cost, medium. Commerce preliminarily found that certain steel nails from the United Arab Emirates were sold below normal value for the period May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2025, and preliminarily assigned weighted-average dumping margins of 1.42% to Rich Well Steel Industries LLC and 1.42% to Master Nails and Pi…
- Rescission for 18 Companies (No Entries): cost, medium. Commerce is rescinding this administrative review in part for 18 companies listed in Appendix II because they had no entries of the subject steel nails during the period May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2025. For those 18 companies, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to assess a…
- New Cash Deposit Rules for Future Shipments: cost, medium. The notice says cash deposit requirements will apply to shipments of the subject merchandise entered or withdrawn for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of this administrative review. The cash deposit rate will be the rate established in those final results (but if th…
- Importer-Specific Duty Assessment Method: cost, low. If Rich Well's final weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis, Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific assessment rates based on the ratio of total dumping for an importer's examined sales to the total entered value of those sales (or a per-unit rate where entered values ar…

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## Sources
- [2026-15997 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/06/2026-15997/certain-steel-nails-from-the-united-arab-emirates-preliminary-results-and-partial-rescission-of)
- [2026-15997 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-06/pdf/2026-15997.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15997 (as of 2026-08-13).