Mexico Sugar: Commerce Postpones Preliminary CV Duty Determination

The Commerce Department is extending until Aug. 25 the deadline for its preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation on sugar from Mexico (C-201-846). The agency decided to postpone after finding the investigation is “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.”