The United States concludes its review of Chinese melamine.

Final results of the second review

The US Department of Commerce published Federal Register notice 2026-20383 on 5 October 2026 concerning melamine from China . The notice is entitled “Melamine From the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Second Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order” .

The notice sets out the final results of the expedited second sunset review of the antidumping duty order applicable to this product of Chinese origin . The review is described as both “second” and “expedited” in the title of the notice published in the Federal Register .

According to the Department of Commerce’s conclusion, revocation of the antidumping duty order would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping . This conclusion concerns the scenario in which the order then in force is revoked, as set out in the review’s final results .

The notice links this conclusion to the dumping levels indicated in the notification . The research file describes these levels as those “indicated in the notification”, without reproducing the numerical rates in the accessible extract of the Federal Register notice .

Reference 2026-20383 identifies the notice published in the Federal Register on 5 October 2026 . Its stated subject is confined to the final results of the expedited review of the antidumping duty order on melamine from the People’s Republic of China .

The published conclusion does not concern a new original investigation into melamine, but the results of a second sunset review of the antidumping duty order referred to in the notice . It applies the criterion of likely continuation or recurrence of dumping should that order be revoked .

The available extract from the Federal Register page refers to an automated-access restriction and does not reproduce the notice in full . The amounts or percentages corresponding to the dumping levels are not included in that extract .

Scope of the notice and documentary limitations

The title of the notice available in the Federal Register links the case to a US antidumping duty order concerning melamine from the People’s Republic of China . The available source therefore identifies China as the origin covered by the notice .

The accessible content does not reproduce the full text of the notice. The Federal Register page displays a message stating that programmatic access to the website and the eCFR system is restricted because of automated data-collection activity . It refers readers to the Federal Register application programming interface documentation and states that a CAPTCHA test may be required to access the content .

This documentary limitation prevents consultation of the passages in the case material that describe the detailed scope of the antidumping duty order . The dumping rates or margins referred to in the notice are not reproduced in the accessible source content . The accessible file also does not provide the HTS codes associated with the melamine concerned .

The detailed product description, any scope exclusions and the notice’s technical wording do not appear in the content made available on the source page . Information on producers, exporters or product categories that may be cited in the full text is likewise not reproduced in the available extract . The accessible page also provides neither the margin table nor any other numerical table linked to the review’s conclusion .

The page title identifies the “final results of the expedited second sunset review” concerning Chinese melamine, without reproducing the administration’s detailed reasoning in its accessible content . The available file contains no alternative copy of the notice, scope appendix or full version of the text published in the Federal Register .