Raw Honey: Prelim AD Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect for Argentina, Brazil, India, Vietnam, Ukraine

The Commerce Department also said it is postponing until April 7, 2022, the due date for its final determination in the antidumping duty investigations on raw honey from these five countries.

Critical Circumstances for Some Argentine Companies, Cash Deposits Retroactive 90 Days

Commerce made a finding that all exporters of raw honey from Argentina except NEXCO increased their exports to the U.S. in the months before the preliminary determination. This "critical circumstances" finding by the agency allows it to retroactively suspend liquidation and require AD duty cash deposits for subject merchandise from Asociación De Cooperativas Argentinas Cooperativa Limitada, Industrias Haedo S.A., Compañía Inversora Platense S.A. and the "all others" Argentine companies 90 days before the preliminary determination, i.e., on or about Aug. 25, 2021. Otherwise, AD duty suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for NEXCO, as well as for all exporters of raw honey from Brazil, India, Vietnam and Ukraine, take effect on Nov. 23.

AD Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposit Requirements

Commerce will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation for all entries of subject merchandise that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, on or after the dates listed in the tables below, and require cash deposits at the following rates:

Argentina

Brazil

India

Vietnam

Ukraine

(The period of investigation is 04/01/20 - 03/31/21 for Argentina, Brazil, India and Ukraine, and 10/01/20 - 03/31/21 for Vietnam. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope, suspension of liquidation, etc. See 2108250036 for a summary of the initiation of this AD duty investigation, and 2104210047 for a summary of the underlying petition. See also 2108250036 for an announcement about the postponement of the preliminary determination.)