Tariff WatchAntidumping and countervailing duties address a specific injury to a domestic industry rather than a national policy, and they work differently from the trade remedies in chapter 99. They are set per exporter, and the amount deposited at entry is not the amount finally owed.
How an order arises
Two agencies, two findings.
The Department of Commerce determines whether goods are being sold in the United States at less than fair value, which is dumping, or are benefiting from a countervailable subsidy. The International Trade Commission determines whether a domestic industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of those imports. An order issues only where both findings are affirmative.
The order names the scope in prose. Scope is not defined by tariff classification: the classifications listed in an order are given for convenience and are not dispositive, and an article can be within a scope while classified outside the listed lines.
Rates and liquidation
A cash deposit at entry, a final rate at liquidation.
Rates are set for each named exporter or producer, with an all-others rate for the rest. What is collected at entry is a cash deposit at the rate then in effect. The duty finally assessed is determined in an administrative review after the fact and may be higher or lower, sometimes by a wide margin.
Antidumping and countervailing duties stack with every other duty. No trade agreement claim removes them.
What is published here
Scope, not rate.
No antidumping or countervailing rate is published on this site. Rates are per exporter and are revised in annual reviews, and no reliable machine-readable source is available. Whether an order is in scope for a classification and origin is flagged, with the case number, from a hand-seeded list of thirteen orders covering consumer and building goods. That list is not the full register; the authority is the Commerce Department’s own search.
Related
Elsewhere on this site.