Commerce Finalizes Circumvention Finding, Imposes More AD on Malaysian MSG
The Commerce Department will impose further antidumping duties on monosodium glutamate imports from Malaysia, suspending liquidation and requiring AD cash deposits for entries over two and a half years earlier, and ending a certification process that had allowed some Malaysian MSG imports to avoid the duties.
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The agency finalized its determination that MSG from Malaysia that was made using Chinese glutamic acid is circumventing an AD order on MSG from China (A-570-992), it said in a notice March 29. In a change from its preliminary determination, the agency found all Malaysian companies it investigated didn’t cooperate with its anti-circumvention inquiry.
As a result, the agency is now suspending liquidation and requiring AD cash deposits for unliquidated entries dating back to Nov. 4, 2021. It had previously been in effect in most cases for entries on or after May 15, 2024.
Commerce also is removing the certification process that allowed MSG from Malaysia that doesn't use Chinese glutamic acid as an input to avoid AD, in effect subjecting all Malaysian MSG imports to duties.