Paper Shopping Bags: Details of AD/CVD Orders for 8 Countries

The orders set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties that will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce, which may only take place under certain conditions, such as a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CV duties on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.

The orders detail a “gap period” of no CVD liability for subject merchandise that was entered March 5, 2024, through July 9, 2024, and of no AD liability for subject merchandise entered July 1-9, 2024. Commerce may only suspend liquidation for a four-month period after its preliminary CVD determination, issued Nov. 6, 2023, and for six months after its preliminary AD determination, issued Jan. 3, 2024. Commerce will order CBP to liquidate, without regard to AD or CVD, any entries during these respective gap periods. Subject merchandise entered during the CVD gap period but outside the AD gap period (i.e., March 5, 2024, through June 30, 2024) will only be assessed AD.

Commerce will order the refund of all CVD cash deposits collected on paper shopping bags from China and India entered before Nov. 6, 2023, and all AD cash deposits for entries from Cambodia, China, India, Taiwan, and Vietnam prior to Jan. 3, 2024, because the ITC reversed Commerce's findings of critical circumstances and retroactive collection of cash deposits.

Aero Plast Packaging and its affiliates are exempt from the AD order on India as a result of the zero percent AD rate Commerce calculated for the company in its final determination. As a result, Aeroplast and its affiliates aren't subject to any suspension of liquidation or cash deposit requirements for merchandise both produced and exported by the company.

AD/CV Suspension of Liq Instructions

Suspension of liquidation resumes for all entries of subject merchandise entered on or after June 10, the date that the final ITC affirmative injury determination was published.

CV Cash Deposit Instructions

Commerce will require importers to pay CV duty cash deposits on subject merchandise entered on or after June 10. CV duty cash deposits will be required at the following rates:

India

China

AD Cash Deposit Instructions

An AD cash deposit requirement is also in effect for subject merchandise entered on or after June 10. Commerce will instruct CBP to require, at the same time that importers deposit estimated duties, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed below.

Cambodia

Colombia

India

*As adjusted for export subsidies found in the concurrent CV duty investigation. This rate serves as the AD duty cash deposit rate for entries on or after June 10.

Malaysia

Portugal

Taiwan

China

*As adjusted for export subsidies found in the concurrent CV duty investigation. This rate serves as the AD duty cash deposit rate for entries on or after June 10.

Vietnam

(See the notice for additional details, including the full scope description, etc. See 2405230049 for a summary of the final AD duty determinations, and 2405230022 for summary of the final CV duty determinations.)