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PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL: ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATIONS
This will provide you with a brief update on trade issues that may be relevant to your daily business involving the promotion and sale of ceramic tile;
- The US Commerce Department (International Trade Administration) today issued a Countervailing Duty Order (“CVD Order”) impacting US imports of ceramic tile from India. This is following the ITA’s decision dismissing the parallel Antidumping case involving Indian ceramic tile;
- The CVD Order follows the final industry “injury” determination by the International Trade Commission that the ITC forwarded to the Commerce Department last Monday. The ITC found that the domestic ceramic tile manufacturing industry is threatened with material injury by reason of imports of Indian ceramic tile that are subsidized by the government of India;
- As the ITC’s finding was only of a certain type of “threat” of material injury, the CVD Order will apply prospectively on and after the date of publication of the final USITC determination in the Federal Register. This type “injury” finding will result in the refund by US Customs (CBP) to importers of CVD cash deposits which were required for all entries of Indian tile posted on or after September 27, 2024, the date of the ITA Preliminary Affirmative CVD Determination and for many entries of India posted 90 days earlier due to a “Critical Circumstances” finding, which is no longer in effect due to the USITC action;
- The CVD Order becomes effective for import entries filed on the date of formal publication of the USITC’s final determination in the Federal Register. US importers of tile from India must then post CVD duty deposits in the following amounts, which are relatively low for a countervailing duty case:
- Antiqa Minerals: 3.45 percent
- Win-Tel Ceramics Private Ltd.: 3.06 percent
- All Others: 3.18 percent
We will promptly let you know of the date of publication of the USITC Notice which is the initial date when CVD duty deposits will be required.
If you have any questions, please contact CTDA Legal Counsel Robin Grover at (202) 302-1653. We will promptly alert you to any further developments regarding this and other trade issues.
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