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ARA Sent a Letter to the USDOC Urging to Not Use Zeroing in Antidumping Review

Jul 13 2010

ARA sent a letter to Secretary Locke and Ambassador Kirk of the Department of Commerce. The letter urged that the U.S. Department of Commerce Antidumping Administrative Review of Solid Urea from Russia rejects the use of zeroing in the antidumping review. Zeroing tends to drive up overall antidumping margins because the Department of Commerce does not consider negative dumping margins in the analysis. The practice of zeroing has been rejected, in the WTO and NAFTA and both the Court of International Trade (CIT) and the U.S Court of Appeals has found that U.S. statute does not require the use of "zeroing."

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