China Laminated Woven Sacks: Two-Ink Sacks Don't Circumvent AD/CV Orders
Laminated woven sacks screen that have three or more colors but are printed with two inks are not circumventing the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on laminated woven sacks from China (A-570-916 / C-570-917), said the International Trade Administration in its final results of a circumvention inquiry.
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Domestic industry said the laminated woven sacks violated the AD/CV duty order scopes’ inclusion of bags printed with “three colors or more in register.” The screening process used to produce the sacks at issue uses only two colors of ink, but mixes them to create three colors. According to domestic industry, these three-color bags would have been produced using three colors of ink if not for the AD/CV duty orders, and only used the two-ink screening process to circumvent them.
The ITA, however, found that the merchandise produced with the two-ink, three-color screening method already existed at the time the AD/CV duty orders were issued in 2008. As such, the laminated woven sacks at issue are not “later developed merchandise” produced to circumvent the order.
(See ITT’s Online Archives 11112310 for summary of the preliminary negative circumvention determination.)