Govt puts duties on American grain sorghum

China has decided to impose provisional anti-dumping measures on grain sorghum imported from the United States, the Ministry of Commerce said in preliminary anti-dumping ruling on Tuesday.

The ministry found that US companies had dumped grain sorghum on the Chinese market, and such imports had caused substantial damage to the domestic industry, after China decided to launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probes into US sorghum in early February.

Starting on Wednesday, grain sorghum importers will be required to pay deposits with Chinese customs calculated based on a rate of 178.6 percent, according to the ministry.