ITAC issued verification reports for Wiesenhof (German producer) and Frisia (Dutch producer). 7 days have been given to respond to these reports (up to the 16th May) and then the non-confidential versions of these reports will be placed on the public file. Interested parties (local producers, other exporters and importers) will then have a further 7 days to comment. This still leaves a long list of interested parties that responded to the case but whose information was not verified. To the best of our knowledge, none of these companies has received any communication from ITAC.
What does all of this mean?
The most likely explanation is that a preliminary decision will be taken at the June meeting and a preliminary duty will be imposed around the 20th June. This means that all companies whose information was not verified will likely be facing a preliminary anti-dumping duty.
What will the size of the preliminary duty be?
It is impossible to give an accurate figure at this point, but our estimates are that the preliminary duty will be over 40%
What can be done about this?
All companies who were not verified will have until 2 weeks after the preliminary duty is imposed to rectify all problems that have caused them to not be accepted. Anyone missing this deadline will be excluded from the final decision and face the maximum duty for the 5 years that the anti-dumping is put in place.