CBP Completes Preliminary Assessment of FY11 CDSOA Distributions

November 8, 2011

On November 4, 2011, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that it will release the preliminary calculations for the impact of the Claims Resolution Act (CRA) on the fiscal year 2011 distributions of the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA). CDSOA distributions will be processed by November 29, 2011.

Congress implemented CDSOA as a means of supplying distributions of antidumping and countervailing duties to the domestic industry’s supporters of the petitions in antidumping and countervailing duty cases. Since the repeal of the CDSOA in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Congress has required that only the antidumping and countervailing duty entries made before October 1, 2007 be distributed. Congress then adopted the CRA of 2010, which prohibited distributions of duties collected from entries that were un-liquidated, not in litigation, and not under an order of liquidation from the U.S. Department of Commerce as of December 8, 2010. Based on these three criteria, the CBP estimates that for FY11, approximately $7.95 million of duties could be withheld from distribution.

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