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Paper File Folders: Prelim AD Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect for Sri Lanka, Not Cambodia

Suspension of liquidation and antidumping duty cash deposit requirements took effect May 29 for imports of paper file folders from Sri Lanka (A-542-806), after the Commerce Department found dumping in the preliminary determination of its ongoing AD investigation.

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The agency also found that paper file folders from Cambodia (A-555-005) aren't being undersold in the U.S., in a negative preliminary determination, and will not impose AD duty cash deposit requirements for imports from Cambodia at this time. Imports from the country remain subject to countervailing duty suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements set in a preliminary CVD investigation March 28 (see 2503280057).

​AD Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposit Requirements

Commerce will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation for AD duty purposes for all entries of subject merchandise that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 29, and require AD duty cash deposits as follows:

Sri Lanka

ProducerAD Rate
Lanka Educational Products Pvt Ltd91.28%
All Others57.43%

(The period of investigation is 10/01/23 through 09/30/24. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope (unchanged), suspension of liquidation, detailed cash deposit instructions, etc. See 2411190039 for a summary of initiation of this investigation.)