AD: China Certain Tissue Paper Products
The International Trade Administration has initiated an anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether certain imports of tissue paper from Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping duty order on tissue paper products from China.
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ITA to Determine Circumvention by China-Produced Rolls Completed in Vietnam
The ITA will determine whether imports of tissue paper from Vietnam which the petitioner alleges are made by Max Fortune (Vietnam) Paper Products Company Limited from jumbo rolls and cut sheets of tissue paper produced in China are circumventing the AD duty order on tissue paper from China.
Specifically, the petitioner alleges that Max Fortune Vietnam is importing into Vietnam China-produced jumbo rolls and cut sheets of tissue paper 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 prior to exporting that merchandise to the U.S.; and that such activity on the part of Max Fortune Vietnam constitutes circumvention of the China AD duty order.
Suspension of Liquidation, Cash Deposit if Preliminary Affirmative Determination
If the ITA issues a preliminary affirmative determination, it will then instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation and require a cash deposit of estimated duties, at the applicable rate, for each unliquidated entry of the merchandise at issue, with a time of entry on or after the date of initiation of the inquiry.
The ITA intends to issue its final determination within 300 days of April 5, 2010.
(See ITA notice for more information, including the scope of the order, etc.
See ITT's Online Archives or 10/10/08 news, 08101045, for BP summary of a final circumvention determination that tissue paper products produced by another Vietnamese company are circumventing the subject AD duty order.)
ITA contact - Brian Smith (202) 482-1766
ITA notice (FR Pub 04/05/10) available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-7662.pdf