Buchanan Secures Win for U.S. Manufacturers as Commerce Preliminarily Finds Significant Antidumping Duties on Tungsten Shot from China

WASHINGTON (February 2025) - In a victory for the U.S. Tungsten industry, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has preliminarily determined that foreign producers and exporters of Tungsten Shot from China have been dumping their products in the United States. Commerce has calculated preliminary antidumping duty rates ranging from 183.31% to 201.32% for all Chinese Producers.

This determination establishes the preliminary duty rates for this investigation. Following the publication of Commerce’s preliminary determination in the Federal Register, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to begin collecting cash deposits on entries of certain Tungsten Shot from China. Tungsten Shot that is produced in China and transshipped to a third country or repackaged in the United States remains covered by the investigation and subject to cash deposits.  Commerce vigorously enforces trade laws and – with the assistance of CBP – has various tools to address the actions of companies that attempt to avoid the payment of U.S. duties.       

These preliminary antidumping duty rates may increase before Commerce’s final determinations, which are expected in May 2025. These rates cover only the antidumping duty investigations and do not include the additional duties from the companion countervailing duty investigation on Tungsten Shot from China – which amount to an additional 73.75% to 352.20% for all Chinese producers.  In the countervailing duty investigation, Commerce preliminarily determined that the government of China unfairly subsidizes its Tungsten industry, and the Chinese Communist Party exercises significant control over Chinese tungsten producers.      

“These preliminary duty rates are an important start to the relief that the U.S. Tungsten industry needs to compete fairly against dumped imports,” said Daniel B. Pickard, lead counsel to the Petitioner and International Trade and National Security practice group leader at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. “Going into the final phase of this investigation, it is vital that Commerce fully audit the company that has been selected for individual examination and to fully enforce U.S. trade laws.”

U.S. AD/CVD tariff laws are one of the only available tools to provide American companies trade relief and avoid lost sales and profits. Our eBook, Protecting Domestic Producers: A Guide to Antidumping and Countervailing Investigations, shares details on how diverse domestic industries can take advantage of these laws – antidumping and countervailing duty investigations – to combat unfair foreign competition and receive adequate remedies and protections. The Buchanan team of international trade and national security attorneys, has decades of experience supporting clients across a range of industries – ranging from chemical, steel, rubber, mining, and agricultural products – to ensure that the U.S. market is operating under fair and equal conditions.