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Commerce keeps antidumping duties on India honey
Commerce’s final review found the honey was sold below fair value for the 2023-24 period. Importers will keep pricing in extra border costs, and those costs can flow to food makers and retailers.
Raw honey from India remains under U.S. trade pressure after the Commerce Department issued final results in its antidumping duty administrative review. Commerce determined that sales of the product were made at less than normal value during the review period, June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024, and the notice is applicable June 18, 2026.
Comment deadline: 2026-06-08 Effective date: June 18, 2026
For importers, that matters because an antidumping finding can keep the possibility of extra border costs alive. Those costs often do not stop with the company bringing the honey in. They can flow to packers, distributors, food manufacturers and retailers that rely on imported honey as an ingredient or shelf item.
What Commerce found
“Less than normal value” is trade-law shorthand for selling below the benchmark Commerce uses to judge fair pricing. When the agency makes that finding in an antidumping case, it can support duties meant to offset the pricing advantage and protect domestic producers from unfairly priced imports.
Commerce also set company-specific margins in the review and said cash deposit requirements will apply to shipments entered on or after June 18, 2026. The notice does not spell out a new universal rate for all Indian honey, but it keeps the duty risk in place for covered shipments.
Who feels the cost
Honey is a grocery staple, but it also turns up in processed foods, sauces, baked goods and other products that use it as a sweetener. When trade duties enter that supply chain, the pressure tends to show up first with importers and then travel outward to the businesses buying by the drum, not the squeeze bottle.
That is why a ruling on raw honey can matter well beyond the dock. A pricing finding in Washington can change how much companies budget for a shipment, and that can eventually shape what ends up on shelves, in recipe lines and in contract prices with suppliers.
Agency: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce Docket ID: A-533-903 Comment deadline: 2026-06-08 Effective date: June 18, 2026 Contact: Brittany Bauer or Javier Barrientos • AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration • (202) 482-3860 or (202) 482-2243 • 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230