2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid From India and the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-922, A-570-160]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid From India and the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping duty (AD) orders on 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) from India and the People's Republic of China (China). </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable May 27, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Grant Fuller (India), Office IX; telephone: (202) 482-6228; and Matthew Palmer (China), Office III; telephone: (202) 482-1678; AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), on April 7, 2025, Commerce published its affirmative final determinations in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations of 2,4-D from India and China. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On May 16, 2025, pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determinations that an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of dumped imports of 2,4-D from India and China, within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid from India: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 90 FR 14969 (April 7, 2025); and <E T="03">2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid from the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 90 FR 14964 (April 7, 2025). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> ITC's Letter, “Notification of ITC Final Determination,” dated May 16, 2025 (ITC Notification Letter). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Orders</HD> The product covered by these orders is 2,4-D from India and China. For a complete description of the scope of the orders, <E T="03">see</E> the appendix to this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Antidumping Duty Orders</HD> Based on the above-referenced affirmative final determinations by the ITC that an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of imports of 2,4-D from India and China sold at LTFV, and, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce is issuing these AD orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of 2,4-D from India and China are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from India and China, entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment of antidumping duties. Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise on all relevant entries of 2,4-D from India and China. Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of 2,4-D entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after November 14, 2024, the date of publication of the <E T="03">LTFV Preliminary Determinations,</E> <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> but will not include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and before publication of the ITC's final injury determination, as further described below. <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid from India: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures,</E> 89 FR 89949 (November 14, 2024); and <E T="03">2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures,</E> 89 FR 89963 (November 14, 2024) (collectively, <E T="03">LTFV Preliminary Determinations</E> ). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits</HD> Except as noted in the “Provisional Measures” section of this notice, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries of 2,4-D from India and China, in accordance with section 736 of the Act. These instructions suspending liquidations will remain in effect until further notice. Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins indicated in the tables below, adjusted by the relevant export subsidy offsets. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> of the notice of the ITC's final affirmative injury determination, CBP must require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated customs duties on subject merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the tables below. The all-others rate applies to all producers or exporters not specifically listed, as appropriate. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins</HD> The estimated weighted-average dumping margins are as follows: <HD SOURCE="HD2">India</HD> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,16,18"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average <ENT>25.85</ENT> <ENT>20.62</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Meghmani Organics Limited</ENT> <ENT>6.10</ENT> <ENT>3.18</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">All Others</ENT> <ENT>15.98</ENT> <ENT>11.90</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD2">China</HD> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,16C,18C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average <ENT>* 127.21</ENT> <ENT>126.58</ENT> </ROW> <TNOTE>* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.</TNOTE> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Provisional Measures</HD> Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months. At the request of exporters that accounted for a significant proportion of exports of 2,4-D from India and China, Commerce extended the four-month period to no more than six months. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See LTFV Preliminary Determinations.</E> </FTNT> Commerce published the <E T="03">LTFV Preliminary Determinations</E> on November 14, 2024; therefore, the six-month provisional measures period beginning on the date of the publication of the <E T="03">LTFV Preliminary Determinations</E> ended on May 12, 2025. Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act and our practice, <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of 2,4-D from India and China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 13, 2025, the first day provisional measures were no longer in effect, until and through the day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India, India, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 81 FR 48390, 48392 (July 25, 2016). </FTNT> Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final determination in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <HD SOURCE="HD1">Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists</HD> On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the <E T="03">Final Rule</E> in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the <E T="03">Procedural Guidance</E> in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> The <E T="03">Final Rule</E> and <E T="03">Procedural Guidance</E> provide that Commerce will maintain an annual inquiry service list for each order or suspended investigation, and any interested party submitting a scope ruling application or request for circumvention inquiry shall serve a copy of the application or request on the persons on the annual inquiry service list for that order, as well as any companion order covering the same merchandise from the same country of origin. <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws,</E> 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) ( <E T="03">Final Rule</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List; and Informational Sessions,</E> 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021) ( <E T="03">Procedural Guidance</E> ). </FTNT> In accordance with the <E T="03">Procedural Guidance,</E> for ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 17k characters. 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