Moscow-The U.S. Department of Commerce has published a preliminary decision determining a 0 percent dumping margin on EuroChem’s urea imports to the U.S. The preliminary decision came in December and was published in the Federal Register (See FR Today). As a result, EuroChem says if the decision becomes final, its urea exports to the U.S. will be free of antidumping duties. Individual review of antidumping measures for EuroChem was initiated on Feb. 27, 2007, on the basis of a urea shipment to the U.S. at the end of 2006. The company needed to prove lack of affiliation with the Soviet-time urea exporters to the U.S. and obtain an individual duty as a new exporter. EuroChem says the review is complicated, and in order to fully examine materials submitted by the parties, the DOC has extended the final decision deadline to a maximum of 150 days. The final verdict shall be out not later than May 15, 2008. On July 14, 1987, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the DOC adopted an order introducing an antidumping duty of 68.26 percent on urea from the USSR. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, the antidumping duty order on solid urea was transferred to the individual members of the CIS. Currently, the antidumping duty applies to urea from Russia (68.26 percent) and Ukraine (53.23 percent).
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