USITC MAKES DETERMINATION IN 5-YEAR (SUNSET) REVIEW CONCERNING CITRIC ACID AND CERTAIN CITRATE SALTS FROM BELGIUM, COLOMBIA, AND THAILAND

The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty orders on Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.

As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determination, the existing orders on imports of these products from Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand will remain in place.  

Chair Amy A. Karpel and Commissioners David S. Johanson, Rhonda K. Schmidtlein, and Jason E. Kearns voted in the affirmative.

Today’s action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. See the attached page for background on these five-year (sunset) reviews.

The Commission’s public report Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium, Colombia, And Thailand  (Inv. No. 731-TA-1374 -1376 (Review), USITC Publication 5524, July 2024) will contain the views of the Commission and information developed during the review. 

The report will be available by August 1, 2024; when available, it may be accessed on the USITC website at:  https://www.usitc.gov/commission_publications_library.

BACKGROUND


The Uruguay Round Agreements Act requires the Department of Commerce to revoke an antidumping or countervailing duty order, or terminate a suspension agreement, after five years unless the Department of Commerce and the USITC determine that revoking the order or terminating the suspension agreement would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping or subsidies (Commerce) and of material injury (USITC) within a reasonably foreseeable time.  Read More → https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2024/er0701_65364.htm