AD: China Tissue Paper Products
The International Trade Administration has issued an affirmative preliminary determination that certain tissue paper products from Thailand exported by Sunlake Dcor Co., Ltd. are made from jumbo rolls and/or cut sheets of tissue paper produced in the China, and are circumventing the antidumping duty order on certain tissue paper products from China.
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(The ITA initiated this anticircumvention inquiry in October 2008 to consider whether certain imports of tissue paper from Thailand are circumventing this AD duty order.)
Suspension of Liquidation/AD Cash Deposit Required for Subject Tissue Paper
Pursuant to the ITA's affirmative determination of circumvention of the AD duty order on certain tissue paper products from China, the ITA will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation on all unliquidated entries of subject tissue paper products produced in and exported from Thailand by Sunlake with a time of entry on or after October 21, 2008, the date of initiation of the circumvention inquiry.
The ITA will also instruct CBP to require an AD duty cash deposit of estimated duties, at the rate of 112.64% (the current China-wide entity rate), on all unliquidated entries of subject tissue paper products produced in and exported from Thailand by Sunlake with a time of entry on or after October 21, 2008.
(In a similar case, the ITA recently issued an affirmative final determination that certain tissue paper products produced by a Vietnamese company are made from jumbo rolls that are exported from China to Vietnam and are circumventing the subject AD duty order on tissue paper from China. See ITT's Online Archives or 10/10/08 news, 08101045, for BP summary.)
(See ITA preliminary determination notice for more information, including the scope of the AD duty order, etc.
See ITT's Online Archives or 10/29/08 news, 08102940, for BP summary of the initiation of this AD duty anticircumvention inquiry.)
ITA contact - Brian Smith (202) 482-1766
ITA notice (FR Pub 05/06/09) available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-10477.pdf