Indonesia MSG: CV Preliminary Negative Determination

The Commerce Department will not suspend liquidation and impose a countervailing duty cash deposit requirement on imports of monosodium glutamate from Indonesia (C-560-827), after finding no countervailable subsidization in its preliminary CV duty determination. The agency calculated a de minimis CV duty rate for the sole respondent, Cheil Jedang Indonesia. Following Commerce's preliminary determiation, Ajinomoto North America (AJINA) withdrew its request for CV duty investigations on MSG from China and Indonesia (see 14031035). Commerce has to make the final decision on whether to end this investigation, and the process could take a couple of weeks, said lawyers associated with the proceeding. Regardless, Commerce may require antidumping duty cash deposits as a result of its concurrent AD duty investigation on MSG from Indonesia. Commerce is set to make its preliminary AD duty finding May 1 (see 14020415).