Mexico Reviewing Anti-Dumping Duties on Beef Imports from the U.S.
Mexico initially imposed anti-dumping (AD) duties on beef imports from the United States in April 2000. The Mexican Ministry of Economy (Economia) confirmed these AD duties following a so-called “sunset review” on the five-year anniversary of the initial duties in April 2005. The subsequent five-year anniversary of the 2005 duties, coming up in April 2010, will trigger another sunset review by Economia.
The focus of the sunset review will be to determine whether lifting the AD duties is likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping or injury. The sunset review includes several stages, starting with the submission of data and legal arguments and culminating in a hearing, and typically lasts 10-12 months. At the conclusion of the sunset review, Economia will publish its final determination confirming or revoking the duties, or making any adjustments to the duty rates.
Since the sunset review considers the separate-but-related questions of dumping and injury, it is conducted on two parallel tracks. One track involves an assessment of information provided by individual exporting companies and results in a determination by Economia of the appropriate duty levels for each company. The other track addresses the question of whether beef imports from the United States are likely to cause future injury to the Mexican beef industry.
For AD duties to be applied to imports from any U.S. company, Economia must reach a determination of dumping and injury. Since these two questions will be considered separately, it is possible that Economia could reach a determination of dumping without also determining that the Mexican industry would continue to be injured. In that case, all of the existing AD duties would be revoked and no new duties would be introduced.
Because of the critical nature of this injury determination, exporting companies face a decision about whether to submit information as part of the sunset review. If Economia determines that imports from the United States have not caused injury to the Mexican beef industry, no AD duties will be applied to any U.S. exporting company. On the other hand, if Economia finds injury the AD duties that will be applied to individual companies will be based on Economia’s review of the information submitted by those companies. Companies that do not submit any information during the investigation will be assigned the highest AD duties.
Companies with questions about the sunset review process are encouraged to contact Thad Lively in USMEF’s Denver headquarters at 303-623-6328.
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The U.S. Meat Export Federation (www.USMEF.org) is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, corn and soybean checkoff programs.
USMEF complies with all equal opportunity, non-discrimination and affirmative action measures applicable to it by contract, government rule or regulation or as otherwise provided by law.
Mexico initially imposed anti-dumping (AD) duties on beef imports from the United States in April 2000. The Mexican Ministry of Economy (Economia) confirmed these AD duties following a so-called “sunset review” on the five-year anniversary of the initial duties in April 2005. The subsequent five-year anniversary of the 2005 duties, coming up in April 2010, will trigger another sunset review by Economia.
The focus of the sunset review will be to determine whether lifting the AD duties is likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping or injury. The sunset review includes several stages, starting with the submission of data and legal arguments and culminating in a hearing, and typically lasts 10-12 months. At the conclusion of the sunset review, Economia will publish its final determination confirming or revoking the duties, or making any adjustments to the duty rates.
Since the sunset review considers the separate-but-related questions of dumping and injury, it is conducted on two parallel tracks. One track involves an assessment of information provided by individual exporting companies and results in a determination by Economia of the appropriate duty levels for each company. The other track addresses the question of whether beef imports from the United States are likely to cause future injury to the Mexican beef industry.
For AD duties to be applied to imports from any U.S. company, Economia must reach a determination of dumping and injury. Since these two questions will be considered separately, it is possible that Economia could reach a determination of dumping without also determining that the Mexican industry would continue to be injured. In that case, all of the existing AD duties would be revoked and no new duties would be introduced.
Because of the critical nature of this injury determination, exporting companies face a decision about whether to submit information as part of the sunset review. If Economia determines that imports from the United States have not caused injury to the Mexican beef industry, no AD duties will be applied to any U.S. exporting company. On the other hand, if Economia finds injury the AD duties that will be applied to individual companies will be based on Economia’s review of the information submitted by those companies. Companies that do not submit any information during the investigation will be assigned the highest AD duties.
Companies with questions about the sunset review process are encouraged to contact Thad Lively in USMEF’s Denver headquarters at 303-623-6328.
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The U.S. Meat Export Federation (www.USMEF.org) is the trade association responsible for developing international markets for the U.S. red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, corn and soybean checkoff programs.
USMEF complies with all equal opportunity, non-discrimination and affirmative action measures applicable to it by contract, government rule or regulation or as otherwise provided by law.