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This is a reopened antidumping case, not a fresh investigation. The original compensatory duty on Chinese ceramic/porcelain dinnerware dates to a 2012 investigation (Expediente 06/12), which produced a definitive duty in 2014 (USD 2.61/kg reference price) later extended in a 2019 sunset review. Mexico's Federal Administrative Justice Court (TFJA), Upper Chamber, subsequently nullified both the 2014 resolution and the 2019 extension on methodology grounds — specifically the selection of the substitute (surrogate) country used to determine normal value for a non-market economy like China. SE republished a resolution on 15 May 2025 reinitiating the investigation to correct the nullified methodology.
The 26 February 2026 Resolución Preliminar is the product of that reopened investigation: it imposes a provisional compensatory duty, valid four months from entry into force per Article 7.4 of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement (i.e., through roughly late June 2026, pending a final resolution). The mechanism is a reference price of USD 2.58/kg — importers pay the gap between declared import price and the reference price when the import price falls below it, bounded by the company-specific dumping margin determined in the investigation. Interested parties (importers, exporters, domestic producers) had 20 business days from publication to submit arguments and evidence to UPCI.
Separately — and potentially confusingly, since both were published within a day of each other — SE also issued a resolution on 25 February 2026 formally closing the administrative sunset/validity review of the original 2014 duty (already void per the TFJA rulings) and confirming its elimination. That closure resolution and this provisional-duty resolution are two different procedural tracks converging on the same product at the same time: one closes out the legally dead old duty, the other reimposes a new provisional one under corrected methodology.
after a roughly one-year gap (2025 into early 2026) during which no valid duty applied following the TFJA nullification.
reporting from ceramics-producing regions such as Dolores Hidalgo) regain tariff protection, pending the final resolution.
the provisional USD 2.58/kg duty is confirmed, adjusted, or allowed to lapse — file an amendment when it publishes.
antidumping investigations typically run up to ~260 business days from (re-)initiation, which would point toward a final resolution in mid-to-late 2026.
sources reviewed here.