AD: China Certain Tissue Paper Products
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice announcing that it is initiating an anticircumvention inquiry, as requested by the petitioner, to determine whether certain imports of tissue paper from Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping (AD) duty order on certain tissue paper products from China.
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Anticircumvention Inquiry on Certain Tissue Paper Products
On July 19, 2006, Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts, Inc. (petitioner) requested that the ITA conduct an anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether certain imports of tissue paper from Vietnam made from jumbo rolls of tissue paper which are a product of China are circumventing the AD duty order on certain tissue paper products from China.
Specifically, the petitioner alleges that sending jumbo rolls of tissue paper from China to Vietnam for completion or assembly into merchandise of the same class or kind as that covered by the AD duty order on tissue paper from China constitutes circumvention of the AD duty order on tissue paper from China.
ITA to examine one firm, etc. Based upon the information included in the petitioner's request and additional submission, the ITA is initiating this anticircumvention inquiry. The ITA is focusing its analysis of the significance of the production process in Vietnam on the single processor identified by the petitioner, namely, Vietnam Quijiang Paper Co., Ltd (Quijiang).
However, if the ITA receives a formal request from an interested party regarding potential circumvention by other Vietnamese companies involved in processing China jumbo rolls for export to the U.S. within sufficient time, it will consider conducting the inquiries concurrently.
Preliminary affirmative determination will lead to suspension of liquidation, cash deposit. Ifthe ITA issues a preliminary affirmative determination that imports of certain tissue paper are circumventing the AD duty order on certain tissue paper from China, it will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation and require a cash deposit of estimated duties on the merchandise.
The ITA adds that it intends to issue its final determination within 300 days of September 12, 2006.
(See ITA's notice for more information, including the scope of the AD duty order, the further details of the anticircumvention inquiry, etc.)
ITA Contact - Kristina Boughton (202) 482-8173
ITA Notice (FR Pub 09/12/06) available athttp://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-15094.pdf