How Your Methionine Deposit Became a Loan

"If these orders die next spring, which of the tonnes clearing customs this week get their deposit back?"

The Commission handed the methionine market that question on Tuesday morning, and the answer turns on two dates that have already gone by.

The ITC published notice that it will conduct full five-year reviews of the antidumping orders on methionine from France, Japan and Spain, Inv. Nos. 731-TA-1534-1536, at 91 FR 61439.

The vote was September 4. The notice issued September 25 and ran this morning.

No schedule yet.

The word doing the work is full.

Two Orders Nobody Defended

The Commission instituted these reviews on June 1, 2026.

Where respondent interest is inadequate, 19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(3)(B) has the Commission determining on the facts available within 150 days of initiation, and that put the decision on October 29, 2026. A full review runs the statutory 360 days under 1675(c)(5)(A), which puts it on May 27, 2027.

Japan's producers showed up. Their group response was adequate and the Commission took that order the long way, which is ordinary.

What happened to the other two is not. The notice says the Commission found the respondent responses from France and Spain inadequate and took those orders into full reviews anyway, "in order to promote administrative efficiency in light of its determinations to conduct a full review of the order with respect to Japan."

So the two orders no foreign producer bothered to defend just got 210 more days of life than the statute's short route would have given them.