Mexico Issues AD Prelim Determination on U.S. Chicken Leg Quarters
Mexico's Ministry of Economy has published the preliminary determination in its antidumping investigation on imports of chicken leg quarters from the U.S., regardless of country of origin. Mexico preliminarily determined that sufficient evidence exists to support that imports of the products under this investigation were conducted under conditions of dumping, resulting in their increased participation in and causing injury to the domestic market and production of chicken leg quarters.
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Among the factors which led the Secretariat to make this determination are: the subject imports were made with a dumping margin above de minimis; subject imports accounted for 99 percent of total imports made in the period of review; the prices of imports at dumping conditions were below domestic prices or below the prices of imports from other countries; etc.
However, Mexico states there is a possibility of reaching an agreement to eliminate the damaging effects of such imports and has determined to continue its procedures without the imposition of provisional countervailing duties.
(Note that this summary is based on a Google translation of a Mexico Ministry of Economy press release. See ITT's Online Archives 12011932 for summary of Mexico's Diario notice of this action.)