The Fifty-Six Rates That Just Locked
Ninety-four antidumping and countervailing duty orders had their review window open on July 1 and close on July 31. Thirty-eight drew a request. Eighteen of the ninety-four cover chemicals, exactly half of those were reviewed, and methionine, polyvinyl alcohol, persulfates and potassium phosphate salts were not among them. The September window closes on the 30th.
Ninety-four antidumping and countervailing duty orders had their review window close on July 31.
Commerce reached 38 of them on Friday.
Friday's initiation notice names every July-anniversary order somebody asked about. The other list, the orders nobody asked about, is not published anywhere.
So we built it, by taking the July opportunity notice and subtracting Friday's initiations.
"Which duty rates just got another year with nobody looking at them?"
Ninety-Four In, Thirty-Eight Out
Fifty-six orders drew no timely request from anyone: not the petitioner, not a domestic producer, not an importer, not the foreign exporter.
That is just under 60% of the book. A review costs money and takes the better part of the following year, so a party with no quarrel with the rate in force has no reason to file.
Eighteen of the ninety-four orders cover chemicals and chemical-derived materials. Nine of those eighteen drew a request (chart below), and every citric acid and PET film order was among them.
The nine that were not are the ones worth your time.
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