Commerce Considers Circumvention by Cambodia, Malaysia of AD/CVD on Paper Plates From China
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether imports of paper plates from Cambodia and Malaysia are circumventing antidumping duties and countervailing duties on paper plates from China (A-570-164/C-570-165), it said in a notice published Aug. 22.
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The anti-circumvention inquiry will apply country-wide, to "paper plates assembled and completed in either Cambodia or Malaysia using Chinese-origin paperboard, that are subsequently exported to the United States," Commerce said. The inquiry was requested by the Anticircumvention Working Group of the American Paper Plate Coalition.
Commerce will direct CBP to "continue the suspension of liquidation of entries of products subject to the circumvention inquiry that were already subject to the suspension of liquidation" under the China paper plates AD/CVD orders. If Commerce finds circumvention in the preliminary determination of this inquiry, the agency will direct CBP to suspend liquidation for unliquidated entries on or after Aug. 22, 2025, though the agency may decide to suspend liquidation prior to that date.
Commerce will issue questionnaires to "solicit information" from companies in Cambodia and Malaysia "concerning their production of paper plates and their shipments thereof to the United States." Companies that fail to respond completely may get hit with an “adverse facts available” penalty, such as an inference by Commerce that the companies are circumventing duties.