The US Department of Commerce has announced an affirmative preliminary anti-dumping duty circumvention ruling involving exports of the refrigerant blends R404A, R407A, R407C, R410A, R507A from China, that is processed in India using both Chinese and Indian components, and then it is exported to the United States. This action circumvents the anti-dumping order imposed in 2016 on imports of HFC blends from China. The Department of Commerce also announced an affirmative preliminary anti-dumping duty circumvention ruling involving exports of R32, R125, R143a from China for further processing into blends in the United States.
US Customs and Border Protection has been instructed to suspend liquidation and to require a cash deposit of estimated duties on unliquidated entries of HFC blends from India which contain components from China and on unliquidated entries of HFC components R32, R125, and R143a from China.
This means that duty payments may be back-dated to recent shipments. Duties paid at the time of entry into the US are referred to as “deposits” because they are not considered customs’ final assessment of duties owed. Generally, the shipment remains “unliquidated” for 314 days after the date of entry.
The applicable cash deposit rate for HFC blends from India, blended with Chinese HFC components will be 216.37%. For HFC components from China, the Department of Commerce says, it will instruct customs to collect cash deposits under those rates prevailing at the time of entry, depending upon the exporter in question.
