Commerce Suspends AD/CVD Investigations on White Grape Juice Concentrate From Argentina
The Commerce Department will indefinitely pause its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on white grape juice concentrate from Argentina after reaching suspension agreements with Argentine exporters and the Argentine government, it said in a pair of notices released March 23.
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Under the agreements, Commerce will continue to suspend liquidation but will not require any AD/CVD cash deposits, unless an exporter is not a signatory to the AD suspension agreement, in which case cash deposits will be required at the rate set in Commerce’s AD preliminary determination (see 2211020030). Commerce will conduct annual administrative reviews, if requested, and will liquidate all entries without AD/CVD if no review is requested or if the review finds that the agreement is working as intended.
The suspension agreements will be thrown out and the investigations resumed if a request for continuation of the AD/CVD investigations is filed by April 13. Commerce issued its preliminary determination in the CVD investigation in September (see 2209020035, and in the AD investigation in November.
The terms of the CVD suspension agreement require the government of Argentina to not provide any new or existing export or import substitution subsidies on white grape juice concentrate from Argentina, and set measures to restrict exports of the merchandise to the U.S. The AD suspension agreement requires signatory exporters to sell above minimum reference prices listed in Appendix I of the notice that vary based on whether the white grape juice concentrate is standard, organic, kosher or organic kosher.