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China Tetrofluoroethane: ITC Finds Possible Injury, AD/CVD Investigations to Proceed

Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of an air conditioner refrigerant from China will proceed to the phase where duties may be imposed, after the International Trade Commission found on Dec. 13 that imports of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane may be injuring…

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U.S. industry. Mexichem requested the duties in October, alleging that domestic market share have fallen “significantly,” and that Chinese imports of the refrigerant, also known as R-134a, accounted for all of this decline. Commerce is now set to make its preliminary CV duty determination by February, and its preliminary AD duty determination by April, at which point it can begin requiring cash deposits of estimated AD/CV duties.