Upcoming Sunset Review Targets Chinese Chlorinated Isocyanurates Duties
Published Date: 3/3/2025
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Summary
Every five years, the U.S. checks if certain trade duties should stay or go to keep things fair. In April 2025, they’ll review countervailing duties on chlorinated isocyanurates from China to decide if the duties should continue. If domestic businesses want to join the review, they need to act fast—deadlines for participation are tight and could impact trade and prices.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 1 mixed.
Sunset review: chlorinated isocyanurates
Commerce will initiate a five-year Sunset Review in April 2025 for countervailing duties on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). This is the 2nd review and will decide whether the countervailing duty order should remain in place.
Tight participation deadlines and e-filing rule
If you want to join the April 2025 Sunset Review, Commerce asks you to contact them in writing within 10 days of the Notice of Initiation to be on the service list. A Notice of Intent to Participate must be filed within 15 days of initiation to keep the review going, and substantive comments are due no later than 30 days after initiation. Electronically filed documents must be received in full by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on their due date.
Executive summary and footnote limits
Commerce requests that interested parties include at the start of their comments an executive summary for each issue and limit each public executive summary to no more than 450 words (citations excluded). Parties should include footnotes for relevant citations in those public executive summaries; Commerce intends to use those summaries in the decision memorandum.
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