China and Indonesia MSG: Commerce Postpones Preliminary CV Duty Determinations

The Commerce Department is extending until March 3 the deadline for its preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigations on monosodium glutamate from China and Indonesia (C-570-993, C-560-827). The agency decided to postpone on its own accord, after finding the investigations are “extraordinarily complicated” because of the number and complexity of the subsidy programs being investigated. Cash deposits of estimated CV duties can only be collected after the preliminary determination in CV duty investigations, although cash deposits can be made retroactive 90 days from the preliminary determination if Commerce finds “critical circumstances.”