Citric Acid from China Faces Tariff Survival Test
Published Date: 12/1/2025
Notice
Summary
The U.S. International Trade Commission is checking if duties on citric acid and citrate salts from China should stay or go. This review affects importers, manufacturers, and anyone buying these products, with a deadline to share opinions by December 31, 2025. The results could impact prices and trade rules soon, so keep an eye out!
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Five‑Year Review of China Citric Acid Duties
The U.S. International Trade Commission started a third five‑year review on December 1, 2025 to decide whether antidumping and countervailing duty orders on citric acid and certain citrate salts from China should remain in place or be revoked. This review explicitly affects importers, U.S. manufacturers (domestic producers), and people or firms who buy these products, and its outcome could affect prices and trade rules for those products.
Deadlines and Participation Rules for Interested Parties
If you are an interested party (for example, an importer, U.S. producer, union, industrial user, or trade association), you must submit the information requested to the Commission by 5:15 p.m. on December 31, 2025 to be assured consideration, and comments on the adequacy of responses may be filed by 5:15 p.m. on February 12, 2026. Parties wishing to appear must file an entry of appearance no later than 21 days after publication of this notice in the Federal Register (publication: December 1, 2025).
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