Twenty-One Days to Keep Your Catalyst Buy Clean
The ITC voted six to nothing on Thursday, so Commerce's countervailing duty preliminary on Chinese amine catalyst is now a real date: December 24. Nothing on either record alleges critical circumstances, which is the only reason entries before that date stay clean. The allegation can still be filed, and under Commerce's own rule it has to land by December 4 to reach back ninety days.
Six commissioners voted on Thursday and not one of them voted no.
The vote was the preliminary injury determination in the amine compounds cases against China, and a negative would have ended both of them on the spot.
It came back affirmative 6-0, with nobody sitting it out. Compare that to the Commission's other work the same week, where the lamb meat safeguard came back equally divided and two commissioners stood out of the truck bed covers vote entirely.
So what Thursday actually produced is a set of dates that are no longer conditional.
The Date the Deposit Attaches
Commerce says it will announce the countervailing duty preliminary on December 24. That is the first moment a cash deposit attaches to an entry of Chinese polyurethane amine catalyst, and from today it is 41 days out.
The antidumping preliminary, where the alleged 244.94% to 352.32% range stops being an allegation and becomes a rate, is scheduled for March 9, 2027. Call it 116 days.
Both dates can be postponed and the fact sheet says so.
USITC Publication 5817, which is where you will finally see the injury file the vote was built on, is due by December 18.
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