One Percent of Your Catalyst Blend Is Enough
Evonik and Huntsman petitioned against Chinese polyurethane amine catalysts on September 29. Six molecules named by CAS number, alleged margins of 261 to 476 percent, and a scope that reaches any blend carrying one percent of them. Here are the molecules, the entry lines, and the dates.
A petition filed at the Commission on September 29 describes its subject merchandise by viscosity: 1 to 100 mPa·s at 25 °C.
Also by density, 0.82 to 1.05 g/cm³, and by boiling point, 200 to 265 °C.
Also by molecular weight, 133 to 245 g/mol.
Those are the specifications of six particular molecules, written as though they described a class.
The petitioners are Evonik Corporation of Piscataway, New Jersey and Huntsman International LLC of The Woodlands, Texas. The merchandise is the tertiary amine catalyst that drives isocyanate against polyol and water, which in practice means the chemistry that decides whether rigid insulation foam rises on schedule.
The alleged dumping margins run 261.34% to 476.13%.
The question a formulator has to answer this month is a customs question.
"How much of a blend has to be subject merchandise before the blend is subject merchandise?"
One percent.
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