Lawmakers Tell ITC to Reconsider Morocco CVD, End Trinidad and Tobago AD/CVD Investigation
Senators and representatives from all over the country wrote to the International Trade Commission asking it to reconsider countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco and asking it to suspend the investigation on urea ammonium nitrate solutions from Trinidad and Tobago.
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"The conditions surrounding on-farm expenses in the United States have dramatically changed since the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) determinations in the countervailing duty investigation of phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and the antidumping duty investigation of urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizers from Trinidad and Tobago," they wrote March 17. They said that only about 35% of the world's traded supply of phosphate fertilizer is not subject to a trade remedy, and as a result, phosphate fertilizer prices have increased 93%.
"The preliminary determination to impose duties on UAN imports from Trinidad and Tobago should be suspended, as should the collection of cash deposits on these duties. Since the U.S.Department of Commerce initiated the process of imposing duties on UAN imports from Trinidad and Tobago, import volume of UAN fertilizers have decreased 97%," they wrote, and they said the tariffs on these solutions are affecting prices for all nitrogen fertilizer. The letter was signed by 11 Republican senators and by 73 House members, both Democrat and Republican.