Most companies manufacturing bearings in the United States now qualify for fiscal year 2008 payouts under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000.

Payouts -- totaling hundreds of millions of dollars -- under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 were previously limited to only a handful of companies filing successful trade complaints.

However, that restriction has been eliminated. Trade court decisions over the past year found that participation restriction on CDSOA payouts is unconstitutional. Payout eligibility now applies to virtually all bearing manufacturers in the U.S.

The important qualification now is that the company must manufacture bearings covered by a specific commerce case number, where the competing imports are being hit by antidumping or countervailing duties or tariffs. The list of those qualifying CCNs and bearings is in the linked article.

While filing claims is relatively simple, the instructions do take several hours to read carefully and prepare each claim under the commerce case numbers applying to different bearings.

Please also note that, as a result of these trade court decisions, the ability to file CDSOA claims has been reopened, retroactive to the CDSOA program's start in 2000.

The instructions are not clear about cutoff dates for filing those retroactive claims. But if you are a manufacturer qualifying for payouts, you should be gathering the information needed to file retroactively back to 2000.

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