Thailand Glycine: Commerce Postpones Final AD/CV Determinations to Consider Evasion Allegations
The Commerce Department is postponing indefinitely its final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on glycine from Thailand (A-549-837/C-549-838), it said in an unpublished memo. Though the agency found no dumping or illegal subsidization in its preliminary AD/CV duty determinations, allegations of transshipment have recently come to light in a CBP Enforce and Protect Act AD/CVD evasion investigation covering the same period as Commerce’s AD/CV duty investigations. Those allegations call into question information submitted by the sole Thai respondent to both investigations, Newtrend Thailand, which is at the center of CBP’s evasion investigation (see 1903180021). The domestic petitioners want Commerce to reverse course and issue affirmative AD/CV duty determinations on glycine from Thailand based on penalty rates for Newtrend.
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“The information contained in CBP’s Interim Measures raises serious questions as to whether Newtrend Thailand and Newtrend USA have withheld material facts from Commerce regarding the glycine they reported was made in Thailand. As CBP found, there is reasonable suspicion that Newtrend Thailand has falsely declared glycine exported from Thailand to the United States as Thai-origin, when in fact it was produced in China,” Commerce said in the memo. “If true, the transshipment allegations against Newtrend Thailand would frustrate the very purpose of the investigations, as well as the separate AD order on glycine from China,” the agency said. “Commerce cannot adequately address these questions, and reach AD and CVD final determinations relying on the reported information, without further examining these issues and allowing parties additional time to submit information and comment.”
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