US Locks In Duties of 129.73% and 134.75% on Chinese Trailers
The duties are no longer provisional. Commerce has closed the China case, while the investigations into Mexico and Canada remain open.
The US Commerce Department on Wednesday published the notice of its final orders imposing antidumping and countervailing duties on van-type trailers and subassemblies from China. Until now, the duties were provisional.
Both are collected as cash deposits at the border. The antidumping duty, which penalizes selling below fair value, is 129.73% and applies to China as a single entity. The countervailing duty, which answers Chinese government subsidies, is 134.75% for the 20 named companies and for all others.
| Duty | Deposit | Applies to unliquidated entries since |
|---|---|---|
| Antidumping | 129.73 % | June 15, 2026 |
| Countervailing | 134.75 % | June 5, 2026 |
The International Trade Commission, which decides whether US industry has been harmed, sent its affirmative final ruling on Oct. 15. That completed the case against China. Commerce had set its final duties on Aug. 31; in June, the preliminary countervailing rates ran from 82.3% to 128.7%.
The American Trailer Manufacturers Coalition, which groups Great Dane, Stoughton Trailers and Wabash, filed the petition in November 2025. The coalition adds the two rates together and talks of duties above 260%; the official notice gives no combined rate. These are penalties for unfair trade practices, and they stack on top of the general tariffs on Chinese goods.
Subassemblies already covered by the orders on chassis are excluded. Painting, assembling or cutting the product in a third country does not take it out of scope.
Mexico and Canada are named in the same petition, and the investigations into both remain open. Wabash said in a statement that it expects the rulings on both countries to be affirmative too.
The company expects Commerce to issue its final determinations around Dec. 17, with the commission voting in early 2027.
