India Grinding Media: Details of AD/CV Duty Orders
The Commerce Department is issuing antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on high chrome cast iron grinding media from India (A-533-930/C-533-931). The orders, published June 18, set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CVD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
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The agency also amended AD rates for all Indian companies, increasing the rate applicable to AIA Engeineering and the "all-others" companies from 9.58% to 9.79% to correct a calculation error. That change takes effect June 18.
The order details a “gap period” of no CVD liability for subject merchandise entered Feb. 1, 2025, through June 16, 2025, and of no AD liability for subject merchandise entered June 4-16, 2025. Commerce may only suspend liquidation for a four-month period after its preliminary CVD determination, issued Oct. 4, 2024, and for six months after its preliminary AD determination, issued Dec. 6, 2024, without an International Trade Commission final affirmative injury determination in place. Commerce will order CBP to liquidate, without regard to AD or CVD, any entries during these respective gap periods.
Subject merchandise entered during the CVD gap period but outside the antidumping duty gap period (i.e., Feb. 1, 2025, through June 3, 2025) will only be assessed antidumping duties.
AD/CVD Suspension of Liq Instructions
Suspension of liquidation resumes for all entries of subject merchandise entered on or after June 17, the date that the final ITC affirmative injury determination was published.
CVD Cash Deposit Instructions
Commerce will require importers to pay CVD duty cash deposits for all entries at the following rates:
| Company | CVD Rate |
|---|---|
| AIA Engineering Limited; Vega Industries (Middle East) F.Z.C; Welcast Steels Ltd. | 3.16% |
| All Others | 3.16% |
AD Cash Deposit Instructions
An AD cash deposit requirement is also in effect for subject merchandise equal to the rates listed below (as amended from the rates set in the final determination):
| Company | AD Rate |
|---|---|
| AIA Engineering Limited; Vega Industries (Middle East) F.Z.C; Welcast Steel Limited | 9.79% |
| All Others | 9.79% |
(See the notice for additional details, including the full scope description, etc. See 2504290024 for a summary of the final antidumping duty determination, and 2504290025 for a summary of the final countervailing duty determination.)