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Turkey Paper Shopping Bags: Correction to AD Final Determination

When the Commerce Department published its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on paper shopping bags from Turkey (A-489-849) on March 18 (see 2403180061), it said in a correction notice, a company was listed in the rate table for the 47.56% AD rate that shouldn't have been there: Umur Basim.

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Rather, Umur Basim is part of the group of all other producers and exporters that were not individually examined, and that are required to post a cash deposit for estimated antidumping duties at a rate of 26.32%, Commerce said.

Cash deposit rates set in this final determination, effective March 18, should have been as follows:

Exporter/ProducerAD Rate
Artpack Kagit Ambalaj Anonim Sirketi47.56%
Oztas Ambalaj Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.47.56%
Babet Kagitsilik47.56%
Bati Kraft Torba Ambalaj47.56%
BFT Packaging47.56%
Cicupack Ambalaj47.56%
Ekopack Kagit Ambalaj47.56%
Elhadefler A.S.47.56%
Esda Pack Ambalaj47.56%
Haypack Ambalaj47.56%
Jefira Global Dis47.56%
Kahramanmaraş Kağıt Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi47.56%
Multi Kraft Ambalaj47.56%
Rad Tekstil47.56%
Suleyman Tabak Kagitcilik47.56%
Sunvision Tekstil47.56%
Yildez Paper Bag Ambalaj Pazarlama47.56%
All Others26.32%

(The period of investigation is 04/01/22 - 03/31/23. See Commerce’s notice for more information, including the scope of the investigation (unchanged), detailed instructions on cash deposit rates, etc. See 2401030046 for a summary of the preliminary AD determination.)