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Apr. 15, 2024 By Jim DeLisi, AgriBusiness Global Corteva Agriscience has launched a dumping and countervailing duty case against producers and importers of 2,4-D from China and India on March 14. This case covers all 2,4-D sourced from one of these countries, even if processed in third countries. The U.S. dumping statute by law sets the dates that many of the steps must meet. Parts of the process are assigned to the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), while other parts of this task are handled by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). To file such a case, a company must be: *a bon-a-fide U.S. producer; *have a minimum of 51% of the U.S. production base on-board; and *must be able to prove that you have been damaged by the alleged dumped imports. Corteva has enlisted the aid of one of the best trade law firms in Washington, DC. It is therefore highly likely that all of these hurdles have been overcome. Copies of the public version of this petition are available upon request. Impacted Parties After the initial step, the filing of the petition is accomplished, the next step is that the USITC requests information from impacted parties with highly detailed questionnaires for both producers and importers of record. Other producers and importers can and are urged to participate. Questionnaires were released by the USITC on March 18 and are due to be returned to the agency in a very short 10 days. Copies are available here: Foreign Producers/Exporters Questionnaire and U.S. Importers Questionnaire. By the end of this process, which should be completed well before the end of this year each producer that chooses to respond will be assigned their own dumping margins. There will also be country-specific margins established for all others which will include companies that do not respond or new entrants. You can be assured that the "all other" category will have significantly higher dumping margins than the companies that receive their own rates. To read the entire report click here. Tweet |
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