Scope Information
Contact Information
- Enforcement and Compliance
Customs Liaison Unit (202) 482-0984
Supplemental Information about the antidumping and countervailing duty Scope Tables
Each antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) order contains a narrative description that defines the merchandise covered by the proceeding. This narrative description outlines the “scope” of the order, and merchandise falling within the narrative description is “in-scope” merchandise. Scope descriptions can be found using the search tool on the AD/CVD Search page in ACCESS.
Once an AD or CVD order is in place, Commerce may clarify or amend the scope of that order through specific types of proceedings: scope rulings, anticircumvention proceedings, and changed circumstances reviews. Each of these proceedings are described below. In each table there are rulings that may impact the scope of the Order. Public documents are provided for determinations issued between 1990 and August 2011. Please note, some rulings issued prior to August 2011 may not be available on this site. Scope decisions made after August 5, 2011, are available in ITA’s electronic records system, ACCESS. For scope decisions that are available in ACCESS, we have provided the document’s bar code, which can be used to locate and access the public version of the document via ACCESS. Please note that there are pages only for Orders where rulings or determinations have been issued.
Types of scope proceedings
Scope Rulings:
A scope ruling clarifies what imported merchandise is covered by the scope of an order. These proceedings do not modify the scope coverage of the order, and may be conducted independently of, or concurrently with, an administrative review. Interested parties may request that Commerce issue a determination regarding whether specific products are inside or outside of the scope of an order—i.e., issue a “scope ruling”—pursuant to 19 CFR § 351.225.
Circumvention Determinations:
An anticircumvention proceeding determines whether imported merchandise, of the same class or kind as merchandise covered by an AD or CVD order but not covered by the scope language of the order, is circumventing that order. Pursuant to section 781 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR § 351.226, Commerce may determine to expand the scope of the order to include merchandise that was not originally covered by the order but is found to be circumventing the order through completion or assembly in the United States or in a third country, minor alterations to the merchandise, or because the merchandise was developed after the imposition of the order.
Changed Circumstances Reviews:
Commerce may determine to partially revoke an AD or CVD order (i.e., with respect to a product or subset of products) when producers accounting for substantially all of the domestic production of the like product to which the order pertains indicate that they are no longer interested in maintaining an order on a product or subset of products. In these circumstances, Commerce will revoke the order with respect to that product or subset of products. An interested party may request a review due to changed circumstances pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR § 351.216.
Questions:
For any questions, please contact Enforcement and Compliance’s Customs Liaison Unit at 202-482-0984.
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