The Shutdown Set Your Glycine Deadline
Four Commerce determinations on four different fine chemicals were all due Tuesday, because last November's tolling pushed them onto the same day. The rates run from 0.00 percent to 104.92. Also on the file: a citric acid case where Canada beat the dumping charge and lost the subsidy one, a 23-year-old polyvinyl alcohol order nobody turned up to fight, and a Korean photoresist thinner plant in Killeen filing for zone status.
If you buy glycine, methionine or citric acid, four separate determinations that price your imports were all signed on Tuesday.
Blame a pair of memoranda from last November. Commerce tolled every deadline in every AD and CVD administrative proceeding by 47 days for the lapse in appropriations, then by another 21 for the filing backlog that followed, and the extensions granted on top of that landed four unrelated fine-chemical cases on 8 September 2026.
All four hit Monday's Federal Register, and all four are on public inspection now. Seven company rates came out of them, running from 0.00 percent to 104.92 (chart below).
"What does one procedural calendar do to four unrelated molecules at once?"
We flagged the 68-day arithmetic on Thursday, in the Ercros item. Here is the other side of it.
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