The USITC upholds anti-dumping orders on Chinese and Japanese polyvinyl alcohol.

An affirmative determination in two five-year reviews

The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) published in the Federal Register, on 11 September 2026, a notice entitled “Polyvinyl Alcohol From China and Japan; Determinations” . The document concerns investigations Nos 731-TA-1014 and 731-TA-1016, corresponding to the fourth five-year review of the anti-dumping orders on polyvinyl alcohol from China and Japan .

According to the notice, the Commission concluded, on the basis of the record compiled in those reviews, that revoking the anti-dumping orders would be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of material injury to a US industry within a reasonably foreseeable time . The determination was made under section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, codified at 19 U.S.C. 1675(c) .

The notice identifies China and Japan separately as origins covered by the orders under review . It sets out neither anti-dumping duty rates, tariff nomenclature, nor import volumes or values for polyvinyl alcohol in its Federal Register publication .

The Commission completed and filed its determinations on 8 September 2026 . The notice published three days later in Federal Register Volume 91, Number 175, bears document number 2026-18525 and appears on page 57920 .

Reviews initiated in March and handled under expedited procedures

The notice records the initiation, on 2 March 2026, of two five-year reviews concerning the anti-dumping duty orders on polyvinyl alcohol from China and Japan. The initiation was published in Federal Register Volume 91, page 10155 .

On 5 June 2026, the Commission decided to conduct the reviews under expedited procedures. The decision was published in Federal Register Volume 91, page 40590, dated 2 July 2026 .

The notice states that the determinations were completed and filed on 8 September 2026 . It specifies that the Commission ruled under section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, codified at 19 U.S.C. 1675(c) .

According to the USITC’s general description, five-year reviews operate within the framework established by the Uruguay Round agreements. The Department of Commerce generally revokes an anti-dumping or countervailing duty order, or terminates a suspension agreement, after five years unless determinations find that revocation or termination would be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping, subsidisation and material injury .

The USITC states that, at the initiation stage, it assesses interested-party responses concerning the likely effects of revocation. It generally decides within 95 days of initiation whether the level of interest warrants a full or expedited review . In expedited reviews, the USITC generally does not hold a hearing or conduct further investigative activities .

The Commission vote and USITC Publication 5787

The notice records the determination under investigation Nos 731-TA-1014 and 1016 at the fourth five-year review stage . Chairman Brett W. Doyle and Commissioners Jason E. Kearns, Peter-Anthony Pappas, Bart Thanhauser and David Foley Jr. all voted in the affirmative .

The five affirmative votes concerned the Commission’s determination on the anti-dumping orders covering polyvinyl alcohol from China and Japan . The notice records no negative vote, abstention or non-participation in relation to that determination .

Document cited by the notice

The Commission states that its views are set out in USITC Publication 5787, dated September 2026 . The publication is entitled “Polyvinyl Alcohol from China and Japan: Investigation Nos. 731-TA-1014 and 1016 (Fourth Review)” . The notice specifies that the Commission completed and filed its determinations on 8 September 2026 .

The available documentary extract reproduces neither the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States subheadings applicable to polyvinyl alcohol nor the anti-dumping duty rates at issue . Nor does its text provide the detailed content of the views referred to in Publication 5787 .