On December 28, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued preliminary anti-dumping determinations on paper shopping bags imported from Cambodia, Mainland China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Turkey, and Vietnam. This decision affects producers and exporters from these eight countries and Taiwan, China, reflecting the U.S. trend of strengthening trade regulation.

In the preliminary determinations, dumping rates for Cambodian producers/exporters were set at 10.05% to 248.81%. For Mainland Chinese producers/exporters, the rates were 24.15% to 146.32%, with mandatory respondent Dongzheng Paperbag (DaLian) Factory at 59.41%, UUPAK Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong) at 24.15%, separate rate companies at 40.55%, and the country-wide rate at 146.32%. Notably, cash deposit adjustments after subsidy offsets ranged from 12.81% to 135.77%.

Colombian producers/exporters faced dumping rates of 9.48% to 56.14%, while Indian producers/exporters had rates of 0.00% to 57.87%, with cash deposit adjustments after subsidy offsets ranging from N/A to 54.40%. Malaysian producers/exporters were assigned rates of 3.10% to 112.22%, Portuguese producers/exporters at 11.33%, Turkish producers/exporters at 26.32% to 47.56%, and Vietnamese producers/exporters at 51.25% to 92.34%. Taiwan, China producers/exporters had rates of 0.00% to 60.26%.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is expected to issue final anti-dumping determinations on imports from Malaysia and Turkey by March 11, 2024, and for other countries and Taiwan, China by May 10, 2024. The products involved fall under U.S. HTS codes 4819.30.0040 and 4819.40.0040.

This anti-dumping investigation originated on June 21, 2023, when the U.S. Department of Commerce initiated anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on paper shopping bags from Mainland China and India, and anti-dumping investigations on imports from Cambodia, Colombia, Malaysia, Portugal, Turkey, Vietnam, and Taiwan, China.

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