The U.S. Department of Commerce has now imposed antidumping duties on imports of ammonium sulfate from China. These findings are the result of petitions filed by PCI Nitrogen in May alleging that imports from China were both being subsidized and dumped at below fair value and were causing material injury to the U.S. ammonium sulfate industry.
DOC has now released its preliminary determination in the antidumping investigation, finding that imports of ammonium sulfate from China were dumped at margins of 493.46 percent percent ad valorem. As a result, DOC will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to begin collecting cash deposits or bonds on imports of ammonium sulfate from China equal to the preliminary dumping margins.
The antidumping duties will be imposed in addition to the countervailing (CVD) duties of 206.72 percent ad valorem. The CVD duties became effective Nov. 2 and were the result of DOC’s Oct. 24 preliminary determination that imports from China were also being heavily subsidized (GM Oct. 28, p. 11).
Commerce is due to issue its final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations in mid-January 2017, which will be followed by the U.S. International Trade Commission’s final phase investigation assessing the material injury caused to the U.S. ammonium sulfate industry.