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Ref : EIC 111/3/10/1

12 March 2014

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 220/2014

US : Countervailing Action against Monosodium Glutamate from the Mainland of China : Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) announced in the Federal Register (FR) notice of 11 March 2014 the preliminary affirmative determination that countervailable subsidies were being provided to producers and exporters of monosodium glutamate from the Mainland of China. The countervailing duty rates were found to be 13.41% - 404.03%. The FR notice is available at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-03-11/pdf/2014-05241.pdf.

2.On 17 December 2013, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) already issued its preliminary affirmative determination that there was a reasonable indication that an industry in the US was materially injured by reason of imports of monosodium glutamate from the Mainland of China. The investigation will now proceed to the final phase. The final countervailing duty determination of the DoC is scheduled to be issued 75 days after the date of this preliminary determination. If the final determination of the DoC is affirmative, the ITC will make its final determination on whether an industry in the US is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by reason of imports of monosodium glutamate from the Mainland of China within 45 days after the DoC's final determination.

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3.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5682.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Linda NG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry