Often, the complication of understanding AD/CVD determinations cause corporate decision makers to rule out the possibility of sourcing certain products from certain countries. However, a careful review of the determination’s scope could reveal opportunities and methods to navigate the regulation, while not interfering with government policy goals.

We welcome you to contact us to discuss a complicated trade opportunity. We will dig into the regulations, work the situation from every angle and ask the right questions.

Dumping occurs when a foreign producer or exporter sells a product in the United States at a price that is below “normal value.”  Normal value may be the price at which the foreign producer sells the merchandise in its own domestic market or a third-country market, or may be a constructed value based on its production costs plus an amount for profit.  A separate surrogate-value based methodology is used to establish normal values for non-market economies.  This entails valuing the non-market economy producer’s factors of production using prices or costs from one or more surrogate market economy countries considered to be (1) at a level of economic development comparable to that of the non-market economy country of the producer and (2) a significant producer of comparable merchandise.

Antidumping and countervailing duties are intended to offset the value of dumping and/or subsidization, thereby leveling the playing field for domestic industries injured by such unfairly traded imports.

Although a product type has AD/CVD, there may be a way to navigate it, and we are hear to investigate it.