China Tetrafluoroethane: Retroactive Suspension of Liq for Bluestar in Amended Prelim Determination

The Commerce Department will retroactively suspend liquidation and require antidumping duty cash deposits on entries of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane from China exported by Jiangsu Bluestar Green Technology Co., Ltd. (Bluestar), after amending its May 29 preliminary determination to correct an error. Commerce says its decision that “critical circumstances” did not apply to Bluestar was the result of a mistake, and that the company actually did increase sales in the run up to the preliminary determination in order to get as much product in as possible before duties were imposed. Commerce is amending its preliminary determination to reflect the correction, and will now instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of entries exported by Bluestar and entered on or after Feb. 28, and collect cash deposits on such entries at the applicable AD rate (see 14052822). Suspension of liquidation for Bluestar was already in effect for tetrafluoroethane entered on or after May 29.