On March 29, 2017, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing the commencement of the preliminary phase of a biodiesel antidumping and countervailing duty investigation into Argentina and Indonesia. ITC must make a preliminary determination within 45 days regarding whether there is a reasonable indication that the U.S. biodiesel industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia.  ITC has scheduled a conference on the investigation for April 13, 2017.  Stakeholders that wish to appear at the conference must e-mail William.bishop@usitc.gov and Sharon.bellamy@usitc.gov on or before April 11, 2017.   Written submissions containing information and arguments regarding the investigation will be accepted on or before April 18, 2017.  The investigation is in response to a petition filed by the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) Fair Trade Coalition on March 23, 2017.  More information on NBB’s petition is available in our post “National Biodiesel Board Fair Trade Coalition Files Antidumping, Countervailing Duty Petition.”