On September 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Enforcement and Compliance unit published the preliminary results of the antidumping duty (AD) administrative review of prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from Malaysia (case A-557-819; Federal Register Doc 2026-18495, 91 FR 57542-57545, applicable September 10, 2026). Commerce preliminarily determined that the producers and exporters under review sold subject merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025, and is rescinding the review in part for one company. The headline detail for a metal-parts buyer is the gap between the individually examined companies and everyone else: the two mandatory respondents landed at 1.29 percent and 1.42 percent, while the all-others cash-deposit rate stays at 5.13 percent.
PC strand is high-carbon cold-drawn steel wire – the same broad family of drawn-steel wire product that feeds wire-based components, fasteners, springs, and cable assemblies, and that sits upstream of fabricated and machined steel parts. A live dumping review on steel wire therefore belongs on the radar of anyone buying drawn wire, wire-based parts, or steel components whose feedstock traces back to it.
What the Preliminary Results Established
The confirmed facts come straight off the notice and are dated. Commerce initiated this administrative review on July 25, 2025 (90 FR 35268), and on August 26, 2025 selected Kiswire Sdn. Bhd. and Southern PC Steel Sdn. Bhd. as the mandatory respondents. The review covered four producers/exporters. Deadlines were extended by government-shutdown tolling – 47 days on November 14, 2025 and a further 21 days on November 24, 2025 – plus a 111-day extension on March 31, 2026 and a nine-day extension on August 28, 2026, moving the preliminary deadline to September 8, 2026.
For the POR, Commerce preliminarily determined these estimated weighted-average dumping margins (percent):
- Kiswire Sdn. Bhd.: 1.29%
- Southern PC Steel Sdn. Bhd.: 1.42%
- Wei Dat Steel Wire Sdn. Bhd. (not individually examined): 1.36%, set as the simple average of the two respondents’ margins under 19 CFR 351.109(g).
The notice also rescinds the review in part for Southern Steel Sdn. Bhd. because it had no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR. Rescission is not a finding about pricing or conduct – it is a procedural outcome that, per 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), follows from the absence of entries Commerce could liquidate at a review rate.
Why a Steel Wire Review Reaches Buyers of Machined and Fabricated Metal Parts
PC strand is high-carbon steel wire strands used to pre-stress concrete, but it is made from the same mill inputs and drawing operations that produce the drawn wire behind wire-based parts. Steel wire is drawn from wire rod, typically in the ~0.7-0.9 percent carbon range for prestressing grades, and drawing, stranding, and heat treatment are the operations that set its mechanical properties. When a trade-remedy rate attaches to a wire product from a country, it prices a scoped product, a producing country, and a determined rate – and the same logic reaches downstream wire-based and steel components that share that feedstock origin.
The mechanism matches the preliminary countervailing duty review of brass rod from Korea: trade relief is country- and producer-specific, and the spread between respondent rates and the all-others rate is often the number that governs an importer’s deposit.
1. The All-Others Rate – Not the Respondents – Is What Most Importers Face
This is the point most often missed. Only Kiswire and Southern PC Steel have individually examined rates here. The cash-deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters continues to be 5.13 percent, the all-others rate from the original less-than-fair-value investigation (86 FR 29998, June 4, 2021). That is roughly four times the two respondent margins. A buyer sourcing Malaysian PC strand – or a wire-based product whose origin points back to a non-selected mill – is exposed to a deposit requirement far above the numbers in the headline.
The notice also restates the layered deposit rules that decide the operative number: previously investigated or reviewed companies keep their company-specific rate from the most recently completed segment; where the exporter is not a covered firm but the manufacturer is, the rate is that of the manufacturer’s most recent segment; and all others take 5.13 percent. Supplier identity, not just country, decides the rate.
2. These Are Preliminary Numbers, and Rates Can Move
Commerce preliminarily determined these margins; final results follow case and rebuttal briefs, and rates can change between the preliminary and final stages. Case briefs are due no later than 21 days after publication, with rebuttal briefs five days after that. Anyone pricing Malaysian wire feedstock on the current figures is pricing on an interim number, and re-pricing once the final results publish is the disciplined move.
3. Assessment and Origin Discipline Carry to the Part
At the final stage, Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific assessment rates on the ratio of dumping to entered value (or per unit where entered values are missing), with a rate below 0.50 percent treated as de minimis and liquidated without regard to AD duties. The notice also reminds importers of the reimbursement certificate obligation under 19 CFR 351.402(f): failing to file can lead Commerce to presume duties were reimbursed and to assess double antidumping duties. That is the same origin-trail and record-keeping discipline the site notes on proposed additions to the Section 232 derivative-article list: a verifiable, papered chain is a cost-control tool, not paperwork theatre.
What Buyers of Steel Wire and Wire-Based Parts Should Verify
Nothing here changes the mechanical properties of any steel or today’s quoted price of any specific wire or alloy. What it supports is a short, reusable check for any Malaysian or cross-border steel-wire purchase:
- Confirm the producing mill, not just the country. Establish whether the wire supplier is a company-specific respondent or falls under the 5.13 percent all-others rate, and note the exporter/manufacturer layering rules.
- Track the review to final. These are preliminary results; final rates follow briefs and can differ. Re-price terms once the final results publish.
- Keep feedstock origin records. Ask for documented mill origin and processing history for the wire so origin claims are defensible if scope or derivative-article rules later apply.
- Model landed cost with duty pass-through. Confirm which party is importer of record and whether a quote assumes AD cash-deposit pass-through – and file the reimbursement certificate where applicable to avoid double assessment.
Limited Conclusions
What is established and dated: on September 10, 2026, Commerce published preliminary results of the AD administrative review of PC strand from Malaysia (A-557-819; Doc 2026-18495, 91 FR 57542, applicable September 10, 2026) for the POR June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025, preliminarily finding sales below normal value, with margins of 1.29 percent for Kiswire, 1.42 percent for Southern PC Steel, and 1.36 percent for Wei Dat, while the all-others cash-deposit rate remains 5.13 percent and the review is rescinded in part for Southern Steel.
The durable takeaway is that a low respondent margin is not the same as an inactive order: the all-others rate, producer/exporter layering, and the still-pending final determination all affect the cash-deposit number an importer owes on steel wire. This review concerns PC strand and implies no change to any machined or fabricated part’s physical properties. But the habit is general – identify the producing mill, keep origin records, and price on landed cost that includes applicable duties – and it keeps cost, quality, and compliance decisions audit-ready across product categories.
References
- Commerce, Enforcement & Compliance. “Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From Malaysia: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025.” Federal Register Doc 2026-18495, 91 FR 57542, September 10, 2026. Retrieved September 12, 2026. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/10/2026-18495/
- Official PDF, govinfo.gov (U.S. GPO). FR Doc 2026-18495, 91 FR 57542-57545, September 10, 2026. Retrieved September 12, 2026. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-10/pdf/2026-18495.pdf
- Review initiation, 90 FR 35268 (July 25, 2025), and original order / all-others rate, 86 FR 29998 (June 4, 2021), both cited in the September 10 preliminary notice.
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