FACT SHEET
• On February 13, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced the initiation of an antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of difluoromethane (R-32) from China.
• The AD law provides U.S. businesses and workers with a transparent, quasi-judicial, and internationally accepted mechanism to seek relief from the market-distorting effects caused by injurious dumping and unfair subsidization of imports into the United States, establishing an opportunity to compete on a level playing field.
• For the purpose of AD investigations, dumping occurs when a foreign company sells a product in the United States at less than its fair value.
• The petitioner is Arkema, Inc. (King of Prussia, PA).
• The scope of this investigation is provided in Appendix I.
• The petitioner estimated that 2018 imports of R-32 from China were valued at approximately $21.5 million.
• The Initiation Decision Checklist is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance’s Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov, and to all parties in the Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. Please refer to case number A570-121. NEXT STEPS
• The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination on or before March 9, 2020. More →
