China Retail Bags: Commerce Finds Preliminary Circumvention by Unfinished Bags, Suspends Liq
The Commerce Department is ordering CBP to suspend liquidation and collect antidumping duty cash deposits on imports of polyethylene retail carrier bags from China (A-570-886) the agency preliminarily found are circumventing AD duties. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements are effective for covered merchandise entered on or after May 14.
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The bags at issue in the anticircumvention inquiry are unfinished bags sealed on all four sides that are imported from China. Once in the U.S., the only step required to turn the unfinished bags into the finished product is die-cutting to create the bag’s opening and handles. The die-cutting counts as a “minor or insignificant process” that shouldn’t mean the bags aren’t covered by the order, domestic companies said in their request for review (see 13051322).
Commerce’s preliminary finding that the unfinished bags are circumventing the AD duty order means that the agency will tell CBP to suspend liquidation and require a cash deposit on unliquidated entries of the product entered on or after May 14, 2013.
Commerce said interested parties may come forward to participate within the next 45 days, by Jan. 31. It said no Chinese producers or U.S. importers participated in the preliminary phase of the investigation.
(Federal Register 12/17/13)