UAE PET FIlm: Anticircumvention Inquiry Begins for JBF Bahrain

The Commerce Department is beginning an anticircumvention inquiry to examine whether imports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film made in Bahrain from inputs sourced from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and India are circumventing antidumping duties on PET film from the UAE (A-520-803). A group of domestic PET film manufacturers alleges JBF RAK in the UAE is providing the inputs to JBF Bahrain S.P.C., and says the resulting product should still be considered to be of UAE origin and subject to AD duties. Commerce’s preliminary results are due in May 2015. If at that time the agency preliminarily finds circumvention, it will suspend liquidation and require cash deposits on the PET film JBF makes in Bahrain from UAE and Indian-origin inputs.