Miller Magazine Issue: 129 September 2020

24 NEWS MILLER / September 2020 ADM Agri-Industries Co., which owns and operates a facility that produces wheat glu- ten located at Candiac Québec, has filed an anti-dumping complaint against imports of wheat gluten from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Lithuania and Australia. ADM files wheat gluten anti-dumping petition The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) launched a probe into whether wheat gluten from six countries is being dumped in Canada at prices undercutting the do- mestic product. ADM said its complaint “seeks a level playing field to compete on fair and equal terms imports in the Canadian market.” The company issued the following statement: “ADM has received no- tice that the Complaint is “properly documented”, and ADM anticipates that a formal anti-dumping investi- gation will be initiated by the CBSA on August 14, 2020. The Complaint assert that European and Australian wheat gluten exporters are dumping in the Canadian market at prices which are both substantially below the cost to produce wheat gluten and substantially below what these exporters charge in their domestic markets. Unfair dumping adversely impacts Canadian industry, threatening new investment and Canadian jobs. The Complaint seeks a level playing field to compete on fair and equal terms imports in the Canadian market. Under the normal investigation schedule, the Canadian Inter- national Trade Tribunal (“CITT”) will issue a preliminary determination as to whether the evidence discloses a reasonable indication of material injury to the domestic industry by October 13 and the CBSA will make preliminary dumping determinations by November 12. If the CITT deter- minations are affirmative, the CBSA will impose preliminary antidumping duties on imports from the subject countries as of the date of the prelimi- nary dumping determination.”