Overview
- China’s Ministry of Commerce issued a preliminary resolution on August 10 applying provisional antidumping margins of 17.8%–51.6% to cooperating Mexican pecan exporters and a 54.3% rate to U.S. exporters.
- The ministry said its probe found preliminary evidence of dumping, substantial injury to China’s domestic pecan industry, and a causal link between the two.
- Mexico’s Secretaría de Economía, SADER and its embassy in China have mobilized a legal and diplomatic defense and told exporters they have 10 days to submit responses to the preliminary finding.
- Authorities warn the trade affected could be larger than reported direct exports because a sizable share of Mexican pecans are sent to China after moving through the United States.
- The measures are provisional and China will issue a final ruling after reviewing submissions, a decision that could reshape prices, contracts and where growers sell their crop this season.