Who Made the Tris Molecule in Your Buffer?

Commerce set preliminary countervailing duty rates on Tris from China on Thursday: 20.63 percent for everyone except one exporter, which drew 117.39 on adverse facts available and a finding that reaches back to entries made on June 26. The scope decides origin by where the molecule was manufactured, so recrystallizing, retesting or repacking it in a third country leaves it inside the net.

Commerce put a cash deposit on the buffer salt on Thursday morning.

The rate is 20.63% for every Chinese exporter of Tris except one, and 117.39% for that one.

Here is the sentence in the scope that decides which of your suppliers is standing in front of those numbers, quoted exactly:

"The country of origin of the subject merchandise in this investigation is based on the country where the Tris molecule is manufactured."

Not where it was crystallized out. Not where it was dried, retested or drummed.

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