PTFE Resin: Details of AD/CVD Orders for India, Russia
The Commerce Department issued antidumping and countervailing duty orders on granular polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin from India (A-533-899/C-533-900) and Russia (A-821-829/C-821-830). The orders set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties that will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce, which may only take place under certain conditions, such as a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CV duties on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
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The orders detail a “gap period” of no CV duty liability for subject merchandise that was entered Nov. 3, 2021, through March 10, 2022, and of no AD duty liability for subject merchandise entered March 1, 2022, through March 10, 2020. Commerce may only suspend liquidation for a four-month period after its preliminary CV duty determination, issued July 6, 2021, and for six months after its preliminary AD duty determination, issued Sept. 2, 2021. Commerce will order CBP to liquidate, without regard to AD or CV duties, any entries during these respective gap periods. Subject merchandise entered during the CV duty gap period but outside the AD duty gap period (i.e., Nov. 3, 2021, through Feb. 28, 2022) will only be assessed AD duties.
Commerce will order the refund of all CV duty cash deposits collected on PTFE resin from India entered before July 6, 2021, and all AD duty cash deposits for entries from India prior to Sept. 2, 2021, because the ITC reversed Commerce's findings of critical circumstances and retroactive collection of cash deposits.
AD/CV Suspension of Liq Instructions
Suspension of liquidation resumes for all entries of subject merchandise entered on or after March 11, the date that the final ITC affirmative injury determination was published.
CV Cash Deposit Instructions
Commerce will require importers to pay CV duty cash deposits on subject merchandise entered on or after March 11. CV duty cash deposits will be required at the following rates:
India
| Company | CV Rate |
|---|---|
| Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited / Inox Leasing Finance Limited / Inox Wind Limited | 31.89% |
| All Others | 31.89% |
Russia
| Company | CV Rate |
|---|---|
| Joint Stock Company “HaloPolymer” / Limited Liability Company “HaloPolymer Kirovo-Chepetsk / Joint Stock Company “HaloPolymer Perm" / URALCHEM JSC | 2.53% |
| All Others | 2.53% |
AD Cash Deposit Instructions
An AD cash deposit requirement is also in effect for subject merchandise entered on or after March 11. Commerce will instruct CBP to require, at the same time that importers deposit estimated duties, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed below.
India
| Exporter/Producer | AD Rate | Adjusted* |
|---|---|---|
| Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. | 13.09% | 10.01% |
| All Others | 13.09% | 10.01% |
Russia
| Exporter/Producer | AD Rate | Adjusted* |
|---|---|---|
| Halopolymer OJSC** | 17.99% | 17.36% |
| All Others | 17.99% | 17.36% |
*As adjusted for export subsidies found in the concurrent CV duty investigation. This rate serves as the AD duty cash deposit rate for entries on or after March 11.
**The final rate applies to subject merchandise produced by HaloPolymer Kirovo-Chepetsk, LLC; HaloPolymer Perm, OJSC; and Limited Liability Company First Fluoroplastic Plant and exported by either Limited Liability Company Trading House HaloPolymer or HaloPolymer OJSC.
(See the notice for additional details, including the full scope description, etc. See 2201250049 for a summary of the final AD duty determinations, and 2201250051 for summary of the final CV duty determinations.)