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US imposes anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese PE bags
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has passed a preliminary judgment in an anti-dumping lawsuit on Vietnamese polyethylene (PE) bags filed by US bag-makers.
The DOC said that as PE bags from Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan are sold at a cut-price level on the US market, it has decided to slap anti-dumping duties of 67.18 – 67.62 percent on bags from Indonesia, 52.3-76.11 percent on products from Vietnam and 28.69 percent to 95.81 percent on those from Taiwan.
Earlier, on August 31, the DOC temporarily imposed anti-subsidised measures on polyethylene carrier bags imported from Vietnam, under which, Advance Polybag will pay a duty of 0.20 percent, Chin Sheng 1.69 percent, Fotai Vietnam Enterprise 4.24 percent and other companies 2.97 percent.
This is the first time Vietnamese export products have had to pay anti-subsidised duties in the US.
The DOC will announce its final decision in the lawsuit on January 11, 2010, and 45 days later the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) will give its final decision. The duties will come into effect only when both the DOC and the ITC have made their final decision (duties will be applied in early March 2010).
On March 31, 2009, two US petitioners (Hilex Poly and Superbag Corporation) accused the makers of plastic carrier bags in Vietnam, Taiwan and Indonesia of dumping and filed an anti-subsidisation lawsuit against the Vietnamese makers with the DOC and International Trade Commission (ITC) through the consultancy of King & Spalding LLP law firm.
In 2008, the US imported about US$79 million worth of plastic shopping bags from Vietnam.
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