Canada Citric Acid: Prelim Results of AD Admin Review

The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on citric acid and certain citrate salts from Canada (A-122-853). Commerce used an "alternative methodology" to calculate JBL Canada's rate -- it compared monthly average U.S. prices to Canadian prices for some sales, but compared specific export transaction prices to monthly Canadian prices for others. The agency said there was a "meaningful difference" between the AD rate calculated using the normal (average-to-average) method and the alternative (mixed) method. One of the "meaningful difference" criteria Commerce looks at is if the alternative method moves the AD rate above de minimis (0.5 percent). The other is a 25 percent difference in AD rates. Commerce didn't say what criteria it relied upon. These preliminary results are not in effect. Commerce may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.