Oleoresin paprika from India draws final US countervailing duties of 18.67% to 25.42%

Update, 1 October 2026: the ITC has voted

The US International Trade Commission voted on 18 September 2026 in the final phase of the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on oleoresin paprika from India (Inv. 701-TA-771 and 731-TA-1755) and reached affirmative determinations. Commerce will therefore issue antidumping and countervailing duty orders. That was the injury finding the orders depended on when this item was first published. The ITC's public report (Publication 5794) is due to be available in October 2026. We have not seen Commerce's orders yet, so the start of cash deposits under them is not confirmed here.

The two determinations, read together

Commerce published final determinations in both the countervailing duty and antidumping cases on 21 August 2026. Final countervailable subsidy rates: Synthite Industries Pvt. Ltd. 25.42%, Mane Kancor Ingredients Private Limited 18.67%, all others 21.90%. Final dumping margins came in far lower — Synthite 5.78%, Mane Kancor 4.24%, all others 5.08% — but because Commerce found countervailable export subsidies in the CVD case, it offset the antidumping margins by the export-subsidy rate, producing a 0.00% antidumping cash-deposit rate for all three. Read alone, the antidumping headline understates the real exposure: the countervailing duty carries the entire burden of any eventual order.

Critical circumstances split between the two cases in a way worth tracking by exporter. In the CVD case, Commerce found critical circumstances for Synthite only, reaching back 90 days before the 6 February 2026 preliminary determination to 8 November 2025 — a negative finding for Mane Kancor and all others, whose entries were suspended only from 6 February 2026. In the antidumping case, Commerce found critical circumstances negative for every producer and exporter.

What happens next

When Commerce published its final determinations, nothing was being collected at the border: the CVD suspension of liquidation that was in place only ran through 5 June 2026. Orders, reinstated suspension and cash deposits at the rates above depended on the US International Trade Commission (ITC) returning a final affirmative injury determination, and it did so on 18 September 2026. Commerce will now issue the orders. We have not seen them, so the date from which deposits are collected is not confirmed here.

Scope covers oleoresin paprika — a viscous red or orange liquid colourant extracted from Capsicum peppers, meeting an ASTA colour value of at least 500 or 20,000 colour units — regardless of pepper variety, oil or water solubility, weight, pungency, or added solvents. That breadth means blended or diluted preparations can fall inside scope if they clear the colour-value threshold, so classification under the secondary HTSUS lines doesn't put a shipment safely outside the case.