(Business Wire)
The U.S. Department of Commerce today published antidumping duty orders on imports of plastic grocery and shopping bags (referred to as polyethylene retail carrier bags) from Indonesia, Taiwan, and Vietnam and a countervailing duty (anti-subsidy) order on plastic bags from Vietnam. Today’s actions follow last month’s affirmative determination by the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) that the U.S. industry is threatened with material injury by reason of the dumped and subsidized imports. The orders reflect the high levels of dumping and subsidization found by the Department in March.
The antidumping orders direct U.S. Customs to collect antidumping duty cash deposits from U.S. importers on all covered plastic bags from Indonesia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The duty rates are 69.64 to 85.17 percent for imports from Indonesia, 36.54 to 95.81 percent for imports from Taiwan, and 52.30 to 76.11 percent for imports from Vietnam. Certain Vietnamese imports also will be subject to countervailing duty cash deposits of up to 52.56 percent. Thus, for example, if an importer enters subject bags from Vietnam, the importer could be required to pay combined antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposits of up to 128.67 percent of the customs value at the time of entry. Read more here.
