Three Prices for One Rubber Accelerator
Commerce put a 281.69 percent dumping deposit on Chinese CBS on Friday and found critical circumstances with it, so the clock runs back to August 8. Stacked on the countervailing rate already in force, an entry that cleared in September owes 389.26 percent. Also new since Thursday: CBP rewrites who counts as an American importer, both Western pigment producers guide fourth-quarter volumes down, and Koppers idles a plant it has never named before.
Commerce signed the CBS preliminary on October 28 and published it Friday. The moment it did, a drum of Chinese rubber accelerator that cleared customs in September became dutiable at a rate nobody had printed yet.
Nobody on the Chinese side turned up to argue. The mandatory respondents withdrew.
"When a duty lands backwards, which of your cleared entries is still open?"
Everything below is new since Thursday's radar. Friday's Federal Register ran heavy, three earnings files carry real asset news, and the week's through-line is that the paperwork moved faster than the plants did.
Three Hundred Eighty-Nine Percent, Backdated to August 8
The notice is 91 FR 70053, case A-570-234, applicable Friday. Period of investigation October 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026.
The China-wide entity gets a weighted-average dumping margin of 285.94 percent on adverse facts available, which becomes a cash deposit of 281.69 percent once Commerce offsets the subsidies already being collected. No separate rate qualified, so there is one rate only.
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