Who Wrote the Rate on Your Chromic Acid?

"If nobody on the other side files a brief, who sets the rate you pay?"

Chromium trioxide answers that in tomorrow morning's Federal Register.

Three final determinations publish Thursday, all of them signed October 5 by Scot Fullerton.

The Türkiye dumping leg lands at 40.88 percent. India's dumping leg lands at 14.44 percent.

Both of those are, to the hundredth of a point, the margins American Chrome & Chemicals alleged when it filed on September 29, 2025.

Two Numbers That Never Moved

Commerce named one mandatory respondent per country: Vishnu Chemicals Limited in India, Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş. in Türkiye. The initiation notice says the agency knows of no others.

Neither answered. Commerce ran no verification in either dumping case, applied adverse facts available to both, and then hit the rule that decides these things: when every examined margin rests entirely on AFA, the all-others rate comes off the petition instead.

One allegation per country sat on the record. So the petition's 14.44 and the petition's 40.88 became the rates, and on the India side Commerce wrote that the final "remains unchanged from, and hereby adopts, the Preliminary Determination," with no decision memorandum at all.

The petitioner filed one document in the Türkiye case. A letter saying it agreed.

Worth knowing who that is. ACC identified itself to Commerce as the sole producer of the domestic like product, which is how the petitions carry 100 percent industry support.

Elementis sold that business, "the only Chromium producer in the Americas" with five US sites, to Türkiye's Yildirim Group in November 2022 at a $170m enterprise value.

Thirty-Eight Percent of a Shrinking Book

Here is what the rate lands on. US imports under HS 2819.10, the single ten-digit line Commerce's own scope names, ran 2,836,295 kg in 2025, down from 5,192,953 kg in 2022.

India took 37.65 percent of that book. In 2019 it took 3.95 percent, and Kazakhstan took two thirds (chart below).

2025 is the first year in the series India finished first.