Title 19 › CHAPTER 4 — TARIFF ACT OF 1930 › SUBTITLE IV — COUNTERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTIES › Part III — Reviews; Other Actions Regarding Agreements › subpart a — review of amount of duty and agreements other than quantitative restriction agreements › § 1675
Requires the agency that enforces antidumping and countervailing duties to review orders, findings, or suspended investigations at least once every 12 months if someone asks for a review. The agency must check the size of any countervailable subsidy, figure out normal value and export price and the dumping margin for entries, and check whether any suspension agreement is being followed. The agency must publish the results and tell Customs about duties to be assessed or deposited. If a new exporter or producer that did not export during the original investigation asks for a review and is unaffiliated with those who did, the agency must give that company its own rate. Those new-exporter reviews must start in a specific six-month window after the order and reach a preliminary decision within 180 days and a final decision within 90 days (these may be extended to 300 and 150 days if the case is extraordinarily complicated). The agency must make preliminary yearly-review determinations within 245 days after the anniversary month and final determinations within 120 days after the preliminary (these may be extended to 365 and 180 days, and certain final decisions may be made up to 300 days after the preliminary). If entries must be liquidated, Customs instructions should be followed within 90 days when practicable. The agency must also, when asked 2 or 4 years after an antidumping order, check whether duties were absorbed by an affiliated importer and tell the Commission. The Commission or the agency must also review earlier orders when facts change enough to justify it, but generally they may not reopen a determination or suspension less than 24 months after it was published unless there is good cause. Five years after an order or suspension, the agency and the Commission must do a mandatory review to see whether ending the order would likely cause dumping or subsidies and injury to U.S. industry. The agency must publish a notice at least 30 days before that fifth anniversary asking for parties to participate. If no one responds, the agency must revoke or end the suspension within 90 days. If responses are inadequate, the agency or Commission may issue final rulings on the facts available within 120 or 150 days. Final five‑year reviews must usually be done by the agency within 240 days and by the Commission within 360 days, with possible 90-day extensions for very complicated cases. The agency must also run faster reviews to implement certain WTO subsidy rulings and must set up procedures to correct ministerial errors (like arithmetic or clerical mistakes). Definitions: "administering authority" = the agency that enforces these duties; "Commission" = the U.S. International Trade Commission; "transition order" = an order in effect when the WTO Agreement took effect for the U.S.; "ministerial error" = arithmetic or clerical mistake.
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Customs Duties, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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19 U.S.C. § 1675
Title 19, Customs Duties
Last Updated
Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110