U.S. Producers Appeal Lifting of Duties on Chinese Pesticide

Three U.S. manufacturers are appealing a federal trade court’s ruling upholding the Commerce Department’s decision to lift duties on a type of fumigant from China, arguing to the Federal Circuit that the agency should have extended a key administrative deadline in light of extraordinary circumstances.

The U.S. in 1984 imposed antidumping duties on imports from China of chloropicrin, a pesticide, herbicide, and insecticide. Commerce must conduct a review of U.S. antidumping duty orders every five years, and must revoke an order unless it determines doing so would likely lead to a recurrence or continuation of dumping, i.e. sales of the ...