Commerce delays final rulings in UAN import probe

The Department of Commerce will delay by two months its final rulings in the ongoing countervailing and antidumping duty investigations into Russian and Trinidadian UAN imports.

Commerce will hand down its final rulings no later than 17 June. The agency was originally scheduled to issue its final determinations by 11 April, but all involved parties between December and January requested a delay depending on the agency's preliminary antidumping decision.

Commerce yesterday issued preliminary antidumping rates on Russian companies ranging from 9.15-127.19pc, with subject rates on Trinidad were 63.08pc. The preliminary ruling comes nearly two months after Commerce implemented preliminary ad-valorem countervailing duties (CVD) on UAN imports from Trinidad and Russia.

By Connor Hyde