One More Day of Your Plasticizer Owes Nothing
Commerce published the DOTP orders on Malaysia, Poland, Taiwan and Turkiye in May 2025 with the gap period starting May 5. Tomorrow morning, 516 days later, it publishes a two-page correction moving that date to May 4. The window that liquidates free of antidumping duties runs eleven days instead of ten, and the deposits sitting on it go as high as 80.71 percent.
In August 2017 Commerce issued its first antidumping order on dioctyl terephthalate, and buried in the provisional measures section was a sentence almost nobody reads.
"Therefore, the extended period, beginning on the date of the publication of the Preliminary Determination, ended on August 1, 2017."
February 3 to August 1. Count it out and you get 180 days.
Tomorrow morning the same office publishes a two-page notice saying it got that count wrong the second time it ran the arithmetic, on a different set of DOTP orders, and that the published date has been off by one for seventeen months.
"How many days is six months, and who pays for the difference?"
The Two Sentences Commerce Is Rewriting
The notice was signed October 15 by Scot Fullerton, filed for public inspection at 8:45 this morning, and publishes tomorrow as FR Doc 2026-21457.
It carries four case numbers: A-557-827, A-455-808, A-583-875 and A-489-852. Malaysia, Poland, Taiwan and Turkiye.
What it corrects is 90 FR 21899, first column, from the orders of May 22, 2025.
Commerce says it "incorrectly stated that the six-month provisional measures period beginning on the date of the publication of the Preliminary Determinations ended on May 4, 2025" and "incorrectly stated that the termination of suspension of liquidation due to the expiration of provisional measures began on May 5, 2025."
The correct dates, per the notice: May 3, 2025 and May 4, 2025.
That is the whole document. No rate changes, no scope change, no new respondent.
Two dates, each moved back by one day.
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