Netherlands Carboxymethylcellulose: Commerce Intends to Revoke AD Duty Order

The Commerce Department intends to end antidumping duties on purified carboxymethylcellulose from the Netherlands (A-421-811), it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review (here). Ashland Specialty Ingredients, the sole U.S. manufacturer of CMC and the original requestor of the duties, recently requested revocation of the AD duty order. If Commerce decides to revoke the order in the final results of its changed circumstances review, the effective date of revocation would be July 1, 2014, it said. Commerce recently revoked an AD duty order on carboxymethylcellulose from Finland, also at Ashland's request (see 1508250026).