Capacity Ledger

Your Seat at the Accelerator Hearing Closes December 24

The ITC scheduled the final phase of the CBS case on Friday, and the notice names industrial users of the subject merchandise as people who may participate. The deadline to become one is twenty-one days before the January 14 hearing, which puts it on Christmas Eve, eighteen days before Commerce prints the final rate you would want to read first.


The Commission published ten dates on Friday for the final phase of the rubber accelerator case. Nine of them are housekeeping for people already in the docket.

The tenth is the only one a CBS buyer can act on, it is the earliest of the ten, and it falls on December 24.

"Does the compounder who actually pays this duty get a say in whether it issues?"

Yes, and the window to take it closes on Christmas Eve.

Nine dates for the docket, one for you

The notice is FR Doc 2026-21143, 91 FR 65776, published Friday October 16 and issued by order of the Commission three days earlier.

It schedules the final phase of Inv. Nos. 701-TA-797 and 731-TA-1793, the countervailing and antidumping investigations on N-cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-sulfenamide from China.

We wrote on October 8 about the subsidy leg: 107.57 percent, all names and all others, on adverse facts available after two Chinese respondents stopped answering Commerce, with suspension of liquidation reaching back to entries made on July 10.

That preliminary is what opened this phase. The Commission says so in terms, and it says the antidumping preliminary "is pending."

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