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Surprise ITC Vote on UAN Fertilizer Tariffs, Executive Order on Rail Labor Dispute

Today, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted not to impose antidumping (AD) duties on UAN from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago (see prior coverage from 10 June here). This is a surprise outcome; in June the Department of Commerce ruled that UAN exports were unfairly subsidized and dumped.   For Trinidad and Tobago, the weighted average dumping margin was calculated at 111.71 percent which is where the AD duties would be set. The unfair subsidy and CVD rate was determined to be 1.83 percent. Today’s vote by the ITC was on whether the U.S. industry was harmed by imports from Trinidad and Tobago and Russia; the determination was the U.S. industry was not harmed. Trinidad accounts for about 45 percent of all UAN i...

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