Notice2026-16018
Organic Soybean Meal From India: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2024
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August 6, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to certain producers/exporters of organic soybean meal from India. The period of review (POR) is January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 150 (Thursday, August 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50769-50771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-16018]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-533-902]
Organic Soybean Meal From India: Preliminary Results and Partial
Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2024
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily
determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to certain
producers/exporters of organic soybean meal from India. The period of
review (POR) is January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024. Interested
parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable August 6, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose Rivera or Alex DiCenso, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0842 or (202) 482-0689,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 25, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
notice of initiation of an administrative review of the Order with
respect to 89 companies.\1\ On July 28, 2025, Commerce selected
Bergwerff Organic India Pvt. Ltd. and Agrawal Oil & Biocheam as
mandatory respondents.\2\ By September 23, 2025, however, all requests
for review from all parties were withdrawn with the sole exception of
the petitioner's request for Ecopure, as well as Ecopure's request of
itself.\3\
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\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 26967 (June 25, 2025); see also
Organic Soybean Meal from India: Countervailing Duty Order, 87 FR
29735 (May 16, 2022) (Order).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated July 28,
2025.
\3\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Partial Withdrawal of
Petitioners' Request for a 3rd Administrative Review,'' dated
September 23, 2025 (Petitioner's Withdrawal Request); see also
Purdue's Letter, ``Organic Soybean Meal from India (C-533-902),''
dated September 23, 2025 (Perdue's Withdrawal Request).
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Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown,
on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative
proceedings by 47 days.\4\ Additionally, due to a backlog of documents
that were electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service
System (ACCESS) during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24,
2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an
additional 21 days.\5\ Additionally, on March 31, 2026, Commerce
extended the deadline for these preliminary results by 113 days, in
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). Consequently, Commerce extended the deadline for the
preliminary results until July 31, 2026.\6\
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,'' dated March
31, 2025.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\7\
A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
included in Appendix I. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public
document and is on file electronically via ACCESS. ACCESS is available
to registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In addition, a
complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed
directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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\7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Countervailing Duty
Order on Organic Soybean Meal from India; 2024,'' dated concurrently
with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision
Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by this Order is organic soybean meal from
India. For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an
administrative review, in whole or in part, if the parties that
requested a review withdraw the request within 90 days of the date of
publication of the notice of initiation. A list of the 88 companies
Commerce received timely-filed withdrawal requests from is provided
below in Appendix II. Because the withdrawal requests were timely filed
and no other parties requested a
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review of these companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1),
Commerce is rescinding this review of the Order with respect to these
88 companies.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance
with 751(a)(1)(A) of the Act. For each of the subsidy programs found
countervailable, Commerce preliminarily determines that there is a
subsidy, i.e., a financial contribution by an ``authority'' that gives
rise to a benefit to the recipient, and that the subsidy is
specific.\8\ For a full description of the methodology underlying our
conclusions, including our reliance, in part, on facts otherwise
available with adverse inferences pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b)
of the Act, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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\8\ See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act regarding
financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) of the Act regarding
benefit; and section 771(5A) of the Act regarding specificity.
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Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the
following net countervailable subsidy rates exist for the POR, January
1, 2024, through December 31, 2024:
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Subsidy rate
Company (percent ad
valorem)
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Ecopure Specialities Ltd.\9\........................... 3.57
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Disclosure
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\9\ As discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum,
Commerce has found the following companies to be cross-owned with
Ecopure: Nature Bio Foods Limited; and LT Foods Limited.
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Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis
performed in connection with the preliminary results to interested
parties within five days of its public announcement, or if there is no
public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of
this notice, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Verification
As provided in section 782(i)(3) of the Act, Commerce intends to
verify the information relied upon in making its final results.
Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance no later than seven
days after the date on which the last verification report is issued in
this review. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case
briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing
case briefs.\10\ Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal
briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents listing
each issue; and (2) a table of authorities.\11\ All briefs must be
filed electronically using ACCESS. An electronically filed document
must be received successfully in its entirety in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on the established deadline.
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\10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative Protective
Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29,
2023) (APO and Service Procedures).
\11\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2)(iii) and (d)(2)(iii), we
request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their
briefs a public executive summary for each issue raised in their
briefs.\12\ Further, we request that interested parties limit their
executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not
including citations. We intend to use the executive summaries as the
basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision
memorandum that will accompany the final results in this administrative
review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for
relevant citations in the executive summary of each issue. Note that
Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\13\
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\12\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\13\ See APO and Service Procedures.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via
ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of
publication of this notice. Requests should contain: (1) the party's
name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants and
whether any participant is a foreign national; and (3) a list of issues
to be discussed. Oral presentations at the hearing will be limited to
issues raised in the briefs. If a request for a hearing is made,
Commerce will inform parties of the scheduled date for the hearing.\14\
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\14\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Assessment Rates
Consistent with section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(2), upon issuance of the final results, Commerce shall
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess,
countervailing duties on all appropriate entries covered by this
review.
For the companies listed in Appendix II for which the review is
being rescinded, Commerce will instruct CBP to assess countervailing
duties on all appropriate entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit
of estimated countervailing duties required at the time of entry, or
withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to issue rescission instructions to
CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date of publication of this
notice in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within
90 days of publication).
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP regarding
Ecopure no earlier than 35 days after the date of publication of the
final results of this review in the Federal Register. If a timely
summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the
assessment instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant
entries until the time for parties to file a request for a statutory
injunction has expired (i.e., within 90 days of publication).
Cash Deposit Requirements
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.107(e),
Commerce intends to instruct CBP to collect cash deposits of estimated
countervailing duties with regard to shipments of subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
date of publication of the final results of this review, as follows:
(1) the cash deposit rate for the company listed above will be equal to
the company-specific estimated individual countervailable subsidy rates
determined in the final results of this review, except if the rate is
less than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de minimis within the meaning of
19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit rate will be zero;
(2) if both the producer and exporter of the subject merchandise have
company-specific estimated subsidy rates assigned, and their rates
differ, then the applicable cash deposit rate will be the higher of
these two rates; (3) if either the producer or the exporter, but not
both, of the subject merchandise has a company-specific estimated
subsidy rate assigned, the applicable cash deposit rate will be that
company's company-specific rate;
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and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers and exporters
will be continue to be 9.57 percent, the all-others subsidy rate
established in the investigation.\15\ These cash deposit instructions,
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\15\ See Order.
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Final Results of Review
Unless the deadline is extended, Commerce intends to issue the
final results of this administrative review, which will include the
results of Commerce's analysis of the issues raised in the case briefs,
within 120 days of publication of these preliminary results in the
Federal Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.213(h)(1).
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.221(b)(4).
Dated: July 31, 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 I--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Diversification of India's Economy
V. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and Application of Adverse
Inferences
VI. Subsidies Valuation
VII. Benchmarks and Discount Rates
VIII. Analysis of Programs
IX. Recommendation
Appendix II--List of Companies Rescinded From Review
1. Aashiyana Foodstuffs
2. Agrawal Oil & Biocheam
3. Aia Engineering Ltd.
4. Ajanta Pharma Ltd.
5. Al Quresh Exp.
6. Allana Consumer Products Pvt. Ltd.
7. Artevet India LLP
8. Asa Agrotech Pvt., Ltd.
9. Avi Agri Business Ltd.
10. Avt Natural Products Ltd.
11. Basillia Organics Pvt. Ltd.
12. Bawa Fishmeal and Oil Co.
13. Bergwerff Organic (India) Pvt., Ltd.; Suminter India Organics
Private Limited
14. Bharat Cereals Pvt., Ltd.
15. BNS Agro Industries Sarl
16. Cardolite Specialty Chemicals India LLP
17. Craft Home
18. Dahnay Logistics Pvt., Ltd.
19. Divi's Laboratories Ltd.
20. Dr. Reddys Laboratories Ltd.
21. Epsilon Carbon Pvt., Ltd.
22. Euroasias Organics Pvt., Ltd.
23. Exp. Freight Pvt., Ltd.
24. Expeditors International (India) Pvt., Ltd.
25. Fair Exp. India Pvt., Ltd.
26. Flex Foods Ltd.
27. Frigorifico Allana Pvt. Ltd.
28. Gate Foods Pvt. Ltd.
29. Gharda Chemicals Ltd.
30. Indauto Filters
31. Indo Gulf Co.
32. Indrani Automotive & Engineering
33. Infinite Bioscience
34. Interport Global Logistics Pvt., Ltd.
35. J.R. Roadlines Pvt., Ltd
36. Janatha Fish Meal and Oil Products
37. Januz Universal
38. Jay Keshav Exp. Pvt., Ltd.
39. JSM Foods
40. Kemin Industries South Asia Pvt., Ltd.
41. Khanal Foods Pvt., Ltd.
42. King Exp.
43. Krishna Corncob Industries
44. Larsen & Toubro
45. LG Balakrishnan Bros.
46. Lupin Ltd.
47. Luxmi Tea
48. Magnichem Industries
49. Medikonda Nutrients
50. MRL Tyres Ltd.
51. Mukka Proteins Ltd.
52. N M Coating
53. Natural Herbs & Formulations
54. Natural Remedies Pvt., Ltd.
55. Noble Shipping
56. Novel Nutrients Pvt. Ltd.
57. Nutrivin Agro Pvt., Ltd.
58. Pachranga Foods
59. Patel Retail Pvt., Ltd.
60. Prima Chemicals
61. Quality Spices and Food Exp. Pvt., Ltd
62. R.M. Trading Co.
63. Rayban Organics Pvt., Ltd.
64. Rohlig India Pvt., Ltd.
65. Rupen Marketing Pvt., Ltd.
66. Safewater Lines (India) Pvt., Ltd.
67. Samruddhi Organic Farm (India) Pvt., Ltd.
68. Satyendra Fibc Pvt., Ltd.
69. Sethi International
70. SGR (777) Foods Pvt., Ltd.
71. Shah Precicast Pvt., Ltd.
72. Shikhar Logistics Pvt., Ltd.
73. Shree Uday Oil and Foods Industries
74. Shri Sumati Oil Industries Pvt., Ltd.
75. Soliflex Packaging Pvt., Ltd.
76. Sona Sunehri Exp.
77. Speciality Indian Food Parks & Exp. Pvt., Ltd.
78. Sunrise Seafoods India Pvt. Ltd.
79. Suprajit Engineering Ltd.
80. Suryamitra Exim Pvt., Ltd.
81. TCG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.
82. Tejawat Organic Foods
83. The Vantage Tradelink
84. Unichem Laboratories Ltd.
85. Unique Fragrances
86. Unovel Industries Pvt., Ltd.
87. Vippy Industries Ltd.
88. Vishnu Barium Pvt., Ltd.
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