Washington-The U.S. International Trade Administration has announced that interested parties may request that the Department of Commerce conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duties on solid agricultural grade ammonium nitrate from Ukraine. The notice appeared on Sept. 1 in the Federal Register, and is a customary procedure that occurs each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension of investigation. The DOC said it intends to select respondents based on U.S. Customs and Border Protection data for U.S. imports during the period of review from Sept. 1, 2008, to Aug. 31, 2009. Interested parties have until the last day of September 2009 to request the administrative review. On the same day of the Federal Register notice, several trade groups, including the Agricultural Retailers Association and the National Association of Wheat Growers, submitted a letter to the DOC urging the removal of what they called “Cold War-era trade restrictions” that remain in place against Russian fertilizer products (GM Sept. 7, p. 10). “Since there are few ammonium nitrate production capacities outside the United States, it is important that additional supply options are available for American farmers,” the letter said. “Given the changing dynamics in the U.S. marketplace, the current restrictions on imports of Russian ammonium nitrate fertilizer no longer make sense.”
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