AD/CVD

This glossary covers AD/CVD terms used by importers, customs brokers and trade-compliance teams.

A-570 case number

Commerce antidumping (AD) case number with prefix A and country code 570, meaning China; the 10-character ACE form adds a 3-digit company suffix; not a CBP form or ruling number.

C-570 case number

Commerce countervailing duty (CVD) case number with prefix C and country code 570, China; paired with an A-570 number when both orders cover the goods; not a CBP form number.

cash deposit rate

The estimated AD or CVD rate deposited at entry summary per Commerce instructions to CBP; provisional until the assessment rate is set; not the final duty, not a bond amount.

all-others rate

The AD or CVD cash deposit rate Commerce assigns to exporters and producers not individually examined; the country-wide fallback in the ACE case file; not the NME entity (China-wide) rate.

exporter/producer combination rate

A Commerce cash deposit rate applying only when goods were both produced by a named producer and exported by a named exporter; otherwise fallback rates apply; not a blended rate.

scope ruling

A Commerce Enforcement and Compliance determination under 19 CFR 351.225 whether a specific product is within an AD/CVD order's written scope; binding on CBP; not a CBP classification ruling.

scope inquiry

The Commerce proceeding, self-initiated or opened on a scope ruling application under 19 CFR 351.225, that produces a scope ruling; not an EAPA investigation and not a CBP inquiry.

circumvention inquiry

Commerce proceeding under 19 CFR 351.226 deciding whether goods completed or assembled in the U.S. or a third country, minor alterations, or later-developed merchandise evade an AD/CVD order; not EAPA.

administrative review

Commerce's review under 19 CFR 351.213 setting the final AD/CVD assessment rate for a period of entries and new cash deposit rates; not a CBP protest review or EAPA review.

non-reimbursement certificate

The importer's statement under 19 CFR 351.402(f) that no exporter or producer reimbursed its antidumping (and countervailing) duties, filed before liquidation; missing it presumes reimbursement and doubles the duties.

suspension of liquidation

CBP's hold on liquidating entries, directed by Commerce for AD/CVD proceedings or imposed by CBP (EAPA, court order), so final duties are assessed later; not a 19 CFR 159.12 extension.

critical circumstances

A Commerce finding under 19 CFR 351.206 of massive imports after a petition, allowing retroactive AD/CVD suspension on entries up to 90 days before provisional measures; not a CBP finding.

EAPA

Enforce and Protect Act, section 421 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, 19 U.S.C. 1517: CBP's procedure for investigating evasion of AD/CVD orders; not Commerce circumvention.

e-Allegations

CBP's online Trade Violations Reporting portal (eallegations.cbp.gov) where the public and the trade report suspected commercial violations such as AD/CVD evasion, forced labor and counterfeits; not the EAPA allegation portal.

TRLED

Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Directorate, the CBP Office of Trade unit that runs EAPA evasion investigations and AD/CVD enforcement; not Commerce Enforcement and Compliance and not CBP Regulatory Audit.

interim measures

EAPA actions CBP takes under 19 CFR 165.24 within 90 days of initiation on reasonable suspicion of evasion: suspension or extension of liquidation, bonds, cash deposits; not Commerce provisional measures.

ADCVD Search

CBP's public ACE AD/CVD Search: the lookup of Commerce cash deposit and liquidation instructions (messages) by case number, now on trade.cbp.dhs.gov; not the ACE Portal case module or Commerce ACCESS.