Mexico Sugar: 2014 Suspension Agreements Resume Effect Dec. 7
The Commerce Department is formally terminating a 2017 amended suspension agreement covering antidumping and countervailing duties on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845/C-201-846), with the prior, unamended agreement from 2014 resuming effect as of Dec. 7, 2019, it said. The move comes as a result of a Court of International Trade decision issued Oct. 18 that found Commerce improperly withheld information on conversations with Mexican sugar producers during the 2017 negotiations on the deal (see 1910210051).
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”Consistent with the CIT’s ruling, Commerce is terminating” the amended AD/CV agreements “prospectively,” Commerce said. “Accordingly, as of December 7, 2019, the unamended” AD/CV duty agreements are “in force and effective,” and the amended AD/CVD agreements have “no force or effect,” Commerce said. The original, unamended agreements, “as signed on December 19, 2014,” apply “to all contracts for sugar from Mexico exported from Mexico on or after December 7, 2019,” the agency said.
(Federal Register 12/11/19)