China Tissue Paper: ITA Preliminarily Finds Circumvention by Indian Company ARPP
The International Trade Administration preliminarily determined that some tissue paper products exported to the U.S. from India by A.R. Printing and Packaging India are circumventing the antidumping duty order on certain tissue paper products from China (A-570-894). According to the ITA, some of the tissue paper exported during the inquiry period was actually of Chinese origin, and ARPP only performed minor processing.
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The ITA will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation for tissue paper products produced by ARPP from Chinese-origin tissue paper that was entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, on or after May 3, 2012, and require a cash deposit at the rate applicable to the exporter. Unlike in some previous anticircumvention inquiries on tissue paper from China, the ITA will not order suspension of liquidation for all entries tissue paper produced by ARPP, because the company sufficiently distinguishes between Chinese and Indian origin inputs in its inventory, the agency said.