How Your Silicone Feedstock Became a Trade Case
Nine origins now carry a US duty order on silicon metal, and the two newest were signed on August 14. Plus Olin and Huntsman vote Tuesday on projections they disclosed only this week, EPA calls ethylene dibromide an unreasonable risk, a Russian phosphate rate drops five points on a benchmark ruling, and Kaub turned.
Nine origins now carry a US antidumping or countervailing duty order on the same chemical feedstock.
The feedstock is silicon metal. The chain it feeds is silicones.
On August 14 the International Trade Commission signed its final injury determinations on Australia and Norway, and the notice published this morning.
Those two are the third and fourth largest suppliers of US silicon metal, together 18 percent of the import book, and the two origins above them still carry nothing (chart below).
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