Notice2026-00093
Hexamethylenetetramine From India: Countervailing Duty Order
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Published
January 7, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing a countervailing duty (CVD) order on hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from India.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 7, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 499-501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-00093]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-533-933]
Hexamethylenetetramine From India: Countervailing Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S.
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing a countervailing duty (CVD) order
on hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from India.
DATES: Applicable January 7, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Schauer, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0410.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), on September 23, 2025, Commerce published
its affirmative final determination that countervailable subsidies are
being provided to producers and exporters of hexamine from India.\1\
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\1\ See Hexamethylenetetramine from India: Final Affirmative
Countervailing Duty Determination and Final Affirmative Critical
Circumstances Determination, in Part, 90 FR 45720 (September 23,
2025).
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On December 22, 2025, pursuant to section 705(d) of the Act, the
ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determination that an
industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of
subsidized imports of hexamine from India within the meaning of section
705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.\2\
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\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determination,'' dated December 22, 2025 (ITC Notification Letter).
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Scope of the Order
The product covered by this order is hexamine from India. For a
complete description of the scope of the order, see the Appendix to
this notice.
Order
As stated above, based on the ITC's final determination that an
industry in the United States is materially injured within the meaning
of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of subsidized imports
of hexamine from India,\3\ in accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the
Act, Commerce is issuing this CVD order. Moreover, because the ITC
determined that imports of hexamine from India are materially injuring
a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of subject merchandise from India
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, are subject to
the assessment of countervailing duties.
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\3\ Id.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce
intends to direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess,
upon further instructions by Commerce, countervailing duties on all
relevant entries of hexamine from India, which are entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after March 7, 2025,
the date of publication of the Preliminary Determination, but will not
include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional
measures period and before the publication of the ITC's final injury
determination under section 705(b) of the Act, as further described in
the ``Provisional Measures'' section of this notice.\4\ Furthermore, in
accordance with section 705(c)(4)(B) of the Act, for all companies for
which we made an affirmative determination of critical circumstances,
we will direct CBP to suspend liquidation of entries of subject
merchandise from India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after December 7, 2024, which is 90 days prior to
the date of publication of the Preliminary Determination in the Federal
Register.
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\4\ See Hexamethylenetetramine from India: Preliminary
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final
Determination with Final Antidumping Duty Determination, 90 FR 11512
(March 7, 2025) (Preliminary Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
In accordance with section 706 of the Act, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of hexamine
from India, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's final
affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register, and to
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, pursuant to section
706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing duties on each entry of subject
merchandise in an amount based on the net countervailable subsidy rates
below. These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect
until further notice.
Commerce also intends, pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, to
instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the amounts as indicated
below. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's
final injury determination in the Federal Register, CBP must require,
at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated customs
duties on this merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the
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rates listed in the table below. The all-others rate applies to all
producers or exporters not specifically listed below, as appropriate.
Estimated Countervailing Duty Subsidy Rates
The estimated countervailing duty subsidy rates are as follows:
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\5\ Commerce found the following company to be cross-owned with
Kanoria Chemicals and Industries Limited: Vardhan Limited.
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Subsidy rate
Company (percent ad
valorem)
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Kanoria Chemicals and Industries Limited \5\......... 2.34
Horizon Chemicals.................................... * 139.57
Micro Labs Ltd....................................... * 139.57
Shreenathji Rasayan Private Limited.................. * 139.57
Rajsha Chemicals Pvt. Ltd............................ * 139.57
All Others........................................... 2.34
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Provisional Measures
Section 703(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months. Commerce published the Preliminary
Determination on March 7, 2025.\6\ As such, the four-month period
beginning on the date of the publication of the Preliminary
Determination ended on July 4, 2025.
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\6\ See Preliminary Determination.
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In accordance with section 703(d) of the Act, we instructed CBP to
terminate the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without
regard to countervailing duties, unliquidated entries of hexamine from
India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or
after July 5, 2024, the date on which the provisional measures expired,
until and through the day preceding the date of publication of the
ITC's final injury determination in the Federal Register. Suspension of
liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will resume on the date
of publication of the ITC's affirmative final injury determination in
the Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\7\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the
Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\8\ The Final Rule and
Procedural Guidance provide that Commerce will maintain an annual
inquiry service list for each order or suspended investigation, and any
interested party submitting a scope ruling application or request for
circumvention inquiry shall serve a copy of the application or request
on the persons on the annual inquiry service list for that order, as
well as any companion order covering the same merchandise from the same
country of origin.
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\7\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20,
2021) (Final Rule).
\8\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
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In accordance with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in
the Federal Register after November 4, 2021, Commerce will create an
annual inquiry service list segment in Commerce's online e-filing and
document management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>, within five business days of publication of the
notice of the order. Each annual inquiry service list will be saved in
ACCESS, under each case number, and under a specific segment type
called ``AISL--Annual Inquiry Service List.'' \9\
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\9\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment
Specific Information (SSI) field which will display the month in
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL--January
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance,\10\ the new annual
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is
published.
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\10\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206.
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Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of
appearance to remove or otherwise modify their list of members and
representatives, or to update contact information. Any changes or
announcements pertaining to these procedures will be posted to the
ACCESS website.
Special Instructions for Petitioner and Foreign Governments
In the Final Rule, Commerce stated that, ``after an initial request
and placement on the annual inquiry service list, both petitioners and
foreign governments will automatically be placed on the annual inquiry
service list in the years that follow.'' \11\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioner and the Government of India (GOI) should submit
their initial entries of appearance after publication of this notice in
order to appear in the first annual inquiry service list for this
order. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the GOI
will not need to resubmit their entries of appearance each year to
continue to be included on the annual inquiry service list. However,
the petitioner and the GOI are responsible for making amendments to
their entries of appearance during the annual update to the annual
inquiry service list in accordance with the procedures described above.
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\11\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the CVD order with respect to hexamine from
India, pursuant to section 706(a) of the Act. Interested parties can
find a list of antidumping and CVD orders currently in effect at
<a href="https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html">https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html</a>.
This order is published in accordance with section 706(a) of the
Act, and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: January 2, 2026.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Order
The scope of this order covers hexamine in granular form, with a
particle size of 5 millimeters or less, whether stabilized or
unstabilized, whether or not blended, mixed, pulverized, or grounded
with other products, containing 50 percent or more hexamine by
weight.
Hexamine is the common name for hexamethylene tetramine
(Chemical Abstract Service #100-97-0), and is also referred to as
1,3,5,7-tetraazaadamantanemethenamine; HMT; HMTA; 1,3,5,7-
tetraazatricyclo {3.3.1.13,7{time} decane; 1,3,5,7-tetraaza
adamantane; hexamethylenamine. Hexamine has the chemical formula
C6H12N4.
Granular hexamine that has been blended with other product(s) is
included in this scope when the resulting mix contains 50 percent or
more of hexamine by weight, regardless of whether it is blended with
inert additives, co-reactants, or any additives that undergo self-
condensation.
Subject merchandise includes merchandise matching the above
description that has been processed in a third country, including by
commingling, diluting, adding or removing additives, or performing
any other processing that would not otherwise remove the merchandise
from the scope of this order if performed in the subject country.
Merchandise covered by the scope of this order can be classified
in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTSUS) of the United States under
the subheading 2933.69.5000. The HTSUS subheading and Chemical
Abstracts Service registry number are provided for convenience and
customs purposes only; however, the written description of the scope
is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2026-00093 Filed 1-6-26; 8:45 am]
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