On July 30, 2025, Sibanye-Stillwater and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (“USW) referred to together as “Petitioners”, filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of Unwrought Palladium from the Russian Federation.
SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
The following language describes the imported merchandise from the Russian Federation that is within the scope of this Petition:
The scope of these investigations is unwrought palladium from Russia. Unwrought palladium includes palladium, whether or not refined, in the form of ingots, blocks, lumps, billets, cakes, slabs, pigs, cathodes, anodes, briquettes, cubes, sticks, grains, sponge, pellets, shot, powder, and similar forms. The scope does not cover rolled, forged, drawn or extruded products, tubular products or cast or sintered forms which have been machined or processed otherwise than by simple trimming, scalping, or descaling.
Unwrought palladium is covered by the scope regardless of production method. The scope includes unwrought palladium produced through ore extraction, unwrought palladium produced by recycling palladium-containing scrap, unwrought palladium produced by any other method, and blends of unwrought palladium produced by different methods.
The scope includes unwrought palladium that is commingled with unwrought palladium from sources not subject to these investigations or commingled with other metals. Only the subject unwrought palladium component of such commingled products is covered by the scope of these investigations. Subject merchandise includes merchandise matching the above description that has been finished, packaged, or otherwise processed in a third country, including by refining, grinding, commingling, adding or removing additives, or performing any other finishing, packaging, or processing that would not otherwise remove the merchandise from the scope of the investigations if performed in the subject country.
The covered merchandise is currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) at subheading 7110.21.0000. Although the HTSUS code is provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the covered merchandise is dispositive.
PETITIONERS
| United Steelworkers 1155 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20036 Contact: Roy Houseman Phone: 202-288-3573 Email: rhouseman@usw.org | Sibanye-Stillwater P.O. Box 1330 Columbus, MT 59019ZND US Inc Heather McDowell 406-598-0066 |
COUNSEL FOR PETITIONERS
Schagrin Associates
900 Seventh Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20001
202-223-1700
NAMED PRODUCERS/EXPORTERS
For a list of foreign producers/exporters alleged by Petitioners, please see Attachment I.
NAMED IMPORTERS
For a list of importers alleged by the Petitioner, please see Attachment II.
ESTIMATED SCHEDULE
| Event | Earliest Date |
| Petition Filed | July 29, 2025 |
| DOC Initiation | August 18, 2025 |
| ITC Preliminary Investigation: | |
| Questionnaires Due | August 12, 2025 |
| Request to appear at hearing | August 17, 2025 |
| Hearing | August 19, 2025 |
| Briefs | August 24, 2025 |
| ITC Vote | September 12, 2025 |
| DOC Investigation Schedule: | |
| DOC Preliminary Antidumping Determination | December 29, 2025 |
| DOC Final Antidumping Determination | March 21, 2026 |
| DOC Preliminary Countervailing Determination | October 22, 2025 |
| DOC Final Countervailing Determination | January 5, 2026 |
| ITC Final Investigation: | |
| ITC Final AD Determination | May 5, 2026 |
| ITC Final CVD Determination | February 19, 2026 |
ALLEGED DUMPING MARGINS
744.79%
ALLEGED COUNTERVAILING DUTY MARGINS
Above de minimis
ALLEGED SUBSIDIES
For a list of alleged subsidies by the Petitioner, please see Attachment III.
IMPORTS OF SUBJECT MERCHANDISE
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Q1 2024 | Q1 2025 | |
| Component Grams | 20,423,499 | 23,828,664 | 27,599,298 | 5,799,996 | 8,699,993 |
| Troy Ounces | 656,630 | 766,108 | 887,337 | 186,474 | 279,711 |
| Landed, Duty-Paid Value | 1,354,059,298 | 1,079,782,211 | 877,763,386 | 182,379,759 | 264,153,692 |
| $ / Troy Ounce | $2,062.14 | $1,409.44 | $989.21 | $978.04 | $944.38 |
CONTACT US For more information concerning this petition and how it may affect your business, please contact Nithya Nagarajan or Stephen Brophy.