Business & Commerce

Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From China: Expedited Sunset Review of Countervailing Duty Order

🇺🇸United States··Notice·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This notice is about the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision to maintain countervailing duties on citric acid and certain citrate salts from China. The decision comes after an expedited review indicating that removing the duties could lead to continued subsidization of these products from China. U.S. producers are protected by these measures, ensuring competitiveness against unfairly priced imports.

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Key Changes

  • Continuation of countervailing duties on citric acid from China
  • Protection mechanisms for U.S. producers maintained
  • Expedited review indicates potential continued subsidization

Obligations

What this law requires

critical

Parties subject to an Administrative Protective Order (APO) must return or destroy proprietary information disclosed under the APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305.

companies subject to APO
operational
high

Importers of citric acid and certain citrate salts must comply with the ongoing countervailing duties established to counteract unfair pricing due to subsidies from China.

importers of citric acid and citrate salts
operational
high

Domestic interested parties must submit a notice of intent to participate in sunset reviews by the deadline specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i).

domestic interested parties
December 1, 2025
reporting
high

Domestic producers of citric acid must adhere to the countervailing duty order to avoid unfair price competition from imported citric acid subsidized by China.

domestic producers of citric acid
operational
critical

Parties subject to an Administrative Protective Order (APO) must return or destroy proprietary information disclosed under the APO according to 19 CFR 351.305.

parties under an APO
timely notification requested
reporting

Affected Parties

U.S. producers of citric acidChinese exporters of citric acid

Tags

trade,countervailing duties,commerce