[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 138 (Thursday, July 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58334-58339]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15746]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-555-002, A-301-805, A-533-917, A-557-825, A-471-808, A-583-872, A-
570-152, A-552-836]


Certain Paper Shopping Bags From Cambodia, Colombia, India, 
Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. 
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade 
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing antidumping duty (AD) orders on 
certain paper shopping bags (paper bags) from Cambodia, Colombia, 
India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China 
(China), and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam).

DATES: Applicable July 18, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles Doss or Kyle Clahane at (202) 
482-4474 or (202) 482-5449, respectively (Cambodia); Jinny Ahn or Tyler 
Weinhold at (202) 482-0339 or (202) 482-1121, respectively (China); 
Laurel LaCivita at (202) 482-4243 (Colombia); Nathan Araya or Gorden 
Struck at (202) 482-3401 or (202) 482-8151, respectively (India); 
Daniel Alexander at (202) 482-4313 (Malaysia); Colin Thrasher at (202) 
482-3004 (Portugal); Nathan James at (202) 482-5305 (Taiwan); Myrna 
Lobo at (202) 482-2371 (Vietnam), AD/CVD Operations, Offices II, III, 
IV, V, VI, and VII Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 24, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register its 
affirmative final determinations in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigations of paper bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, 
Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Vietnam in accordance with sections 
735(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).\1\ 
On July 5, 2024, the ITC notified Commerce of its affirmative final 
determinations, pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act, that an industry 
in the United States is materially injured within the meaning of 
section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of LTFV imports of paper 
bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, 
and Vietnam.\2\ On July 10, 2024, in accordance with section 735(d) of 
the Act, the ITC published in the Federal Register its affirmative 
final injury determination in these investigations in which it found 
that an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason 
of imports of paper bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, 
Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Vietnam.\3\
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    \1\ See Certain Paper Shopping Bags from Cambodia: Final 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final 
Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, In Part, 89 FR 
45841 (May 24, 2024) (Cambodia Final Determination), and 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM); see also Certain 
Paper Shopping Bags from the People's Republic of China: Final 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final 
Affirmative Critical Circumstances Determination, 89 FR 45823 (May 
24, 2024) (China Final Determination), and accompanying IDM; Certain 
Paper Shopping Bags from Colombia: Final Affirmative Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 89 FR 45843 (May 24, 2024) 
(Colombia Final Determination), and accompanying IDM; Certain Paper 
Shopping Bags from India: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales 
at Less Than Fair Value and Final Negative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, 89 FR 45826 (May 24, 2024) (India Final 
Determination), and accompanying IDM; Certain Paper Shopping Bags 
from Malaysia: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value, 89 FR 45821 (May 24, 2024) (Malaysia Final 
Determination), and accompanying IDM; Certain Paper Shopping Bags 
from Portugal: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value and Final Negative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, 89 FR 45845 (May 24, 2024) (Portugal Final 
Determination), and accompanying IDM; Certain Paper Shopping Bags 
from Taiwan: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, in Part, 89 FR 45832 (May 24, 2024) (Taiwan Final 
Determination), and accompanying IDM; and Certain Paper Shopping 
Bags from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Affirmative 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative 
Determination of Critical Circumstances, 89 FR 45839 (May 24, 2024) 
(Vietnam Final Determination), and accompanying IDM (collectively, 
Final Determinations).
    \2\ See ITC's Letter, Investigation Nos. 701-TA-690-691, 731-TA-
1619-1625, and 731-TA-1627 (Final), dated July 10, 2024.
    \3\ See Paper Shopping Bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, 
India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Vietnam, 89 FR 56776 (July 
10, 2024) (ITC Final Determination).
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Scope of the Orders

    The products covered by these orders are paper bags from Cambodia, 
China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Vietnam. For a 
complete description of the scope of these orders, see the appendix to 
this notice.

Antidumping Duty Orders

    Based on the above-referenced affirmative final determinations, in 
accordance with section 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce is 
issuing these AD orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of 
paper bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, 
Taiwan, and Vietnam are materially injuring a U.S. industry, 
unliquidated entries of such merchandise entered or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment of antidumping 
duties.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, 
Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal 
to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the 
export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise, for all 
relevant entries of paper bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, 
Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Vietnam. With the exception of entries 
occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and 
before publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury 
determinations, as further described below, antidumping duties will be 
assessed on unliquidated entries of paper bags entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption, on or after January 3, 2024, the date 
of publication of the Preliminary Determinations.\4\ Because Commerce

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made final affirmative determinations of sales at LTFV, Commerce 
directed CBP to continue suspension of liquidation of paper bags from 
Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and 
Vietnam entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
after May 24, 2024, the date of publication of the Final 
Determinations.\5\
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    \4\ See Certain Paper Shopping Bags from Cambodia: Preliminary 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, in Part, Postponement of Final Determination, and 
Extension of Provisional Measures, 89 FR 325 (January 3, 2024) 
(Cambodia Preliminary Determination), and accompanying Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum (PDM); see also Certain Paper Shopping Bags from 
the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 
Determination of Critical Circumstances, Postponement of Final 
Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures, 89 FR 344 
(January 3, 2024) (China Preliminary Determination), and 
accompanying PDM; Certain Paper Shopping Bags from Colombia: 
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of 
Provisional Measures, 89 FR 319 (January 3, 2024) (Colombia 
Preliminary Determination), and accompanying PDM; Certain Paper 
Shopping Bags from India: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of 
Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary Negative Determination of 
Critical Circumstances, Postponement of Final Determination, and 
Extension of Provisional Measures, 89 FR 336 (January 3, 2024) 
(India Preliminary Determination), and accompanying PDM; Certain 
Paper Shopping Bags from Malaysia: Preliminary Affirmative 
Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair-Value, 89 FR 333 (January 
3, 2024) (Malaysia Preliminary Determination), and accompanying PDM; 
Certain Paper Shopping Bags from Portugal: Preliminary Affirmative 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary Negative 
Determination of Critical Circumstances, and Postponement of Final 
Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures, 89 FR 341 
(January 3, 2024) (Portugal Preliminary Determination), and 
accompanying PDM; Certain Paper Shopping Bags from Taiwan: 
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of 
Provisional Measures, 89 FR 331 (January 3, 2024) (Taiwan 
Preliminary Determination), and accompanying PDM; and Certain Paper 
Shopping Bags from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 
Preliminary Affirmative Critical Circumstances Determination, 
Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional 
Measures, 89 FR 321 (January 3, 2024) (Vietnam Preliminary 
Determination), and accompanying PDM (collectively, Preliminary 
Determinations).
    \5\ See Cambodia Final Determination, 89 FR 45841; see also 
China Final Determination, 89 FR 45823; Colombia Final 
Determination, 89 FR 45843; India Final Determination, 89 FR 45826; 
Malaysia Final Determination, 89 FR 45821; Portugal Final 
Determination, 89 FR 45845; Taiwan Final Determination, 89 FR 45832; 
and Vietnam Final Determination, 89 FR 45839.
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Critical Circumstances

    With respect to the ITC's negative critical circumstances 
determination on imports of paper bags from Cambodia, China, India, 
Taiwan, and Vietnam, we will instruct CBP to lift the suspension of 
liquidation and to refund all cash deposits for estimated antidumping 
duties with respect to entries of the subject merchandise entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after October 5, 2023 
(i.e., 90 days prior to the date of the publication of the Cambodia 
Preliminary Determination, China Preliminary Determination, India 
Preliminary Determination, Taiwan Preliminary Determination, and 
Vietnam Preliminary Determination), but before January 3, 2024, the 
date of publication of the Preliminary Determinations.

Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits

    Except as noted in the ``Provisional Measures'' section of this 
notice, in accordance with section 736 of the Act, Commerce intends to 
instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries 
of paper bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, 
Portugal, Taiwan, and Vietnam, effective July 10, 2024, the date of 
publication of the ITC Final Determination. These instructions 
suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further notice.
    Further, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits 
equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins, with offsets 
for export subsidies where appropriate, as indicated in the tables 
below. Accordingly, effective July 10, 2024, the date of publication of 
the ITC Final Determination, CBP will suspend the liquidation of 
entries of subject merchandise, and require, at the same time that 
importers would normally deposit estimated duties on the merchandise, a 
cash deposit equal to the rates listed below. The relevant all-others 
rates apply to all producers or exporters not specifically listed, as 
appropriate.

Provisional Measures

    Section 733(d) of the Act states that instructions issued under 
section 733(d)(1) and (2) of the Act pursuant to an affirmative 
preliminary determination may not remain in effect for more than four 
months, except where exporters representing a significant proportion of 
exports of the subject merchandise request that Commerce extends the 
four-month period to no more than six months. At the request of 
exporters that account for a significant proportion of exports of paper 
bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, 
and Vietnam, Commerce extended the four-month period to six months in 
these investigations. Commerce published the Preliminary Determinations 
on January 3, 2024.\6\
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    \6\ See Cambodia Preliminary Determination, 89 FR 325; see also 
China Preliminary Determination, 89 FR 344; Colombia Preliminary 
Determination, 89 FR 319; India Preliminary Determination, 89 FR 
336; Malaysia Preliminary Determination, 89 FR 333; Portugal 
Preliminary Determination, 89 FR 341; Taiwan Preliminary 
Determination, 89 FR 331; and Vietnam Preliminary Determination, 89 
FR 321.
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    The extended provisional measures period, beginning on the date of 
publication of the Preliminary Determinations, ended on June 30, 2024. 
Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act, Commerce 
intends to instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and 
to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, certain \7\ 
unliquidated entries of paper bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, 
India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Vietnam entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption after June 30, 2024, the final day on 
which the provisional measures were in effect, through the day 
preceding the date of publication of the ITC Final Determination. 
Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will 
resume on the date of publication of the ITC Final Determination.
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    \7\ In the investigation of paper bags from Taiwan, Commerce's 
preliminary determination was negative with respect to Haur Tyi 
Paper Bag Co., Ltd., but Commerce's final determination for the 
company was affirmative. Accordingly, we directed CBP to suspend 
liquidation for Haur Tyi Paper Bag Co., Ltd.'s entries from the date 
of publication of the Taiwan Final Determination and, at the time of 
publication of this order, we have not issued instructions 
pertaining to the expiration of provisional measures for Haur Tyi 
Paper Bag Co., Ltd.
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Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins

    The estimated weighted-average dumping margins as published in 
Commerce's Final Determinations are as follows:

                                Cambodia
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                                                               Estimated
                                                               weighted-
                                                                average
                    Producer or exporter                        dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Nice Packaging (Cambodia) Co., Ltd..........................        7.07
UUPak Company Limited.......................................        7.07
Pan Pacific Plastics Manufacturing, Inc.....................    * 248.81
All Others..................................................        7.07
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.


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                                                      China
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                                                                                                   Cash deposit
                                                                                     Estimated    rate (adjusted
                                                                                     weighted-      for export
                   Exporter                                 Producer                  average         subsidy
                                                                                  dumping margin     offset(s)
                                                                                     (percent)       (percent)
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UUPAK Co., Ltd................................  Tianjin Haishun Printing &                 73.05           62.07
                                                 Packing Co., Ltd.
Fujian Eco Packaging Co., Ltd.................  Fujian Hongkai Packaging Co.,              73.05           62.07
                                                 Ltd.
Fujian Eco Packaging Co., Ltd.................  Fujian Yihe Packaging Co., Ltd..           73.05           62.07
Fujian Eco Packaging Co., Ltd.................  Guangdong Union Eco-Packaging              73.05           62.07
                                                 Scien-Tech Co., Ltd.
Fujian Eco Packaging Co., Ltd.................  Xiamen Huide Eco-friendly Paper            73.05           62.07
                                                 Bags Co., Ltd.
Fujian Eco Packaging Co., Ltd.................  Xiamen Jihong Technology Co.,              73.05           62.07
                                                 Ltd.
Fujian Nanwang Environment Protection Scien-    Anhui Nanwang Environmental                73.05           61.65
 tech Co., Ltd.                                  Protection Technology Co., Ltd.
Fujian Nanwang Environment Protection Scien-    Fujian Nanwang Environment                 73.05           61.65
 tech Co., Ltd.                                  Protection Scien-tech CO., LTD.
Fujian Nanwang Environment Protection Scien-    Hubei Nanwang Environmental                73.05           61.65
 tech Co., Ltd.                                  Protection Scien-tech Co., Ltd.
Fujian Nanwang Environment Protection Scien-    Xianghe Nanwang Environmental              73.05           61.65
 tech Co., Ltd.                                  Protection Technology Co., Ltd.
Fujian Nanwang Environment Protection Scien-    Zhuhai Zhongyue Paper CUP                  73.05           61.65
 tech Co., Ltd.                                  Container Co., Ltd.
Grand Intelligent Limited.....................  Ruichuang Limited...............           73.05           62.07
Max Fortune Industrial Ltd....................  Winner Printing and Packaging              73.05           62.07
                                                 (He Yuan) Ltd.
Ningbo Beiheng Import & Export Company Limited  Wenzhou Weijie Packing Co., Ltd.           73.05           62.07
Shanghai Miho Package & Product Co., Ltd......  Zhejiang Shengxiang Industrial             73.05           62.07
                                                 Co., Ltd.
Union Packaging Group Limited.................  Guangdong Union Eco-Packaging              73.05           62.07
                                                 Scien-Tech Co., Ltd.
Wuxi Hualite Metal Plastic Products Co., Ltd..  Wuxi Hualite Paper Products Co.,           73.05           62.07
                                                 Ltd.
Xiamen Bag Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd...............  Xiamen CYR Green-Tech Co., Ltd..           73.05           62.07
Xiamen Huide Xiesheng Packaging Co., Ltd......  Xiamen Huide Eco-Friendly Paper            73.05           62.07
                                                 Bags Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Jihong Technology Co., Ltd.............  Xiamen Jihong Technology Co.,              73.05           62.07
                                                 Ltd.
Xiamen Joy Supply Chain Co., Ltd..............  Fujian Huian Nice Paper Products           73.05           62.07
                                                 Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Joy Supply Chain Co., Ltd..............  Xiamen THINKER Packaging                   73.05           62.07
                                                 Products Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Nice Packaging Products Co., Ltd.......  Fujian Huian Nice Paper Products           73.05           62.07
                                                 Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Nice Packaging Products Co., Ltd.......  Xiamen THINKER Packaging                   73.05           62.07
                                                 Products Co., Ltd.
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China-wide Entity...............................................................        * 146.32          135.77
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.


                                Colombia
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                                                             Estimated
                                                             weighted-
                  Producer or exporter                        average
                                                          dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Ditar, S.A..............................................           11.06
Industria Colombiana de Papeles.........................         * 56.14
F[aacute]brica de Bolsas de Papel.......................         * 56.14
All Others..............................................           11.06
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.


                                  India
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                                                           Cash deposit
                                             Estimated    rate (adjusted
                                             weighted-      for export
          Producer or exporter                average         subsidy
                                          dumping margin     offset(s)
                                             (percent)       (percent)
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Aeroplast Packaging Solution Private                0.00  Not Applicable
 Limited; Aero Plast Limited; Aero
 Business Solutions Private Limited.....
Kuloday Plastomers Pvt. Ltd.............            4.59            1.20
Adeera Packaging Pvt. Ltd...............            4.59            1.20
Amate Products Pvt. Ltd.................            4.59            1.20
Apex Paper and Plastic and Film.........         * 53.05           49.66
Archies Limited.........................            4.59            1.20

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Asha Overseas...........................         * 53.05           49.66
Carrywell Packaging Pvt. Ltd............            4.59            1.20
Colorbox................................            4.59            1.20
Dynaflex Private Limited................            4.59            1.20
Godhani Exports.........................         * 53.05           49.66
Pack Easy Paper Products................         * 53.05           49.66
Pack Planet Pvt. Ltd....................            4.59            1.20
Poonam..................................            4.59            1.20
Shriniwas Enterprises...................            4.59            1.20
Tejaswi Plastic Pvt. Ltd................            4.59            1.20
The Velvin Group (DBA Velvin Packaging              4.59            2.21
 Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Velvin Paper
 Products)..............................
Vama Packaging..........................            4.59            1.20
All Others..............................            4.59            1.20
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.


                                Malaysia
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                                                             Estimated
                                                             weighted-
                  Producer or exporter                        average
                                                          dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Hexachase Packaging Sdn. Bhd............................            3.18
Nanwang Pack (M) Sdn. Bhd...............................        * 112.22
Kooka Paper Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd......................        * 112.22
All Others..............................................            3.18
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.


                                Portugal
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                                                             Estimated
                                                             weighted-
                  Producer or exporter                        average
                                                          dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Finieco Ind[uacute]stria e Com[eacute]rcio de                       6.14
 Embalagens, S.A........................................
All Others..............................................            6.14
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                                 Taiwan
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                                                             Estimated
                                                             weighted-
                  Producer or exporter                        average
                                                          dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Haur Tyi Paper Bag Co., Ltd.............................            4.74
Juang Jia Guoo Co., Ltd.................................         * 65.81
All Others..............................................            4.74
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                               Vietnam \8\
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                                                             Estimated
                                                             weighted-
             Exporter                     Producer            average
                                                          dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Goldsun Packaging and Printing      Goldsun Packaging              36.51
 Joint Stock Company.                and Printing Joint
                                     Stock Company.
Dong Sung Printing Co., Ltd.......  Dong Sung Vina                 36.51
                                     Printing Co., Ltd.
Khang Thanh Manufacturing Company   Khang Thanh                    36.51
 Limited.                            Manufacturing
                                     Company Limited.
Vietnam Red Star Industry Company   Vietnam Red Star               36.51
 Limited.                            Industry Company
                                     Limited.
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Vietnam-Wide Entity.....................................         * 92.34
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service List
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    \8\ Regarding Dong Sung Printing Co., Ltd., and Dong Sung Vina 
Printing Co., Ltd., Dong Sung is sometimes translated as one word 
``Dongsung.''
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    On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the final rule titled 
``Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of Antidumping 
and Countervailing Duty Laws'' in the Federal Register.\9\ On September 
27, 2021, Commerce also published the notice titled ``Scope Ruling 
Application; Annual Inquiry Service List; and Informational Sessions'' 
in the Federal Register.\10\ The Final Rule and Procedural Guidance 
provide that Commerce will maintain an annual inquiry service list for 
each order or suspended investigation, and any interested party 
submitting a scope ruling application or request for circumvention 
inquiry shall serve a copy of the application or request on the persons 
on the annual inquiry service list for that order, as well as any 
companion order covering the same merchandise from the same country of 
origin.\11\
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    \9\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 
2021) (Final Rule).
    \10\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List; 
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021) 
(Procedural Guidance).
    \11\ Id.
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    In accordance with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in 
the Federal Register after November 4, 2021, Commerce will create an 
annual inquiry service list segment in Commerce's online e-filing and 
document management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at https://access.trade.gov, within five business days of publication of the 
order. Each annual inquiry service list will be saved in ACCESS, under 
each case number, and under a specific segment type called ``AISL-
Annual Inquiry Service List.'' \12\
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    \12\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment 
Specific Information (SSI) field, which will display the month in 
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was 
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary 
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that 
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant 
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL-January 
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry 
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will 
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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    Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry 
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the 
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30 
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of 
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one 
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead 
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce 
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days 
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance, the new annual 
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when 
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is 
published.
    Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as 
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of 
appearance to remove or otherwise modify their list of members and 
representatives, or to update contact information. Any changes or 
announcements pertaining to these procedures will be posted to the 
ACCESS website at https://access.trade.gov.

Special Instructions for Petitioners and Foreign Governments

    In the Final Rule, Commerce stated that, ``after an initial request 
and placement on the annual inquiry service list, both petitioners and 
foreign governments will automatically be placed on the annual inquiry 
service list in the years that follow.'' \13\ Accordingly, as stated 
above, the petitioners and foreign governments should submit their 
initial entry of appearance after publication of this notice in order 
to appear in the first annual inquiry service list for those orders for 
which they qualify as an interested party. Pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.225(n)(3), the petitioners and foreign governments will not need to 
resubmit their entries of appearance each year to continue to be 
included on the annual inquiry service list. However, the petitioners 
and foreign governments are responsible for making amendments to their 
entries of appearance during the annual update to the annual inquiry 
service list in accordance with the procedures described above.
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    \13\ See Final Rule, 86 FR 52335.
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Notifications to Interested Parties

    This notice constitutes the AD orders with respect to paper bags 
from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and 
Vietnam pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. Interested parties can 
find a list of AD orders currently in effect at https://www.trade.gov/data-visualization/adcvd-proceedings.
    These AD orders are published in accordance with section 736(a) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).

    Dated: July 11, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by these orders consists of paper 
shopping bags with handles of any type, regardless of whether there 
is any printing, regardless of how the top edges are finished (e.g., 
folded, serrated, or otherwise finished), regardless of color, and

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regardless of whether the top edges contain adhesive or other 
material for sealing closed. Subject paper shopping bags have a 
width of at least 4.5 inches and depth of at least 2.5 inches.
    Paper shopping bags typically are made of kraft paper but can be 
made from any type of cellulose fiber, paperboard, or pressboard 
with a basis weight less than 300 grams per square meter (GSM).
    A non-exhaustive illustrative list of the types of handles on 
shopping bags covered by the scope include handles made from any 
materials such as twisted paper, flat paper, yarn, ribbon, rope, 
string, or plastic, as well as die-cut handles (whether the punchout 
is fully removed or partially attached as a flap).
    Excluded from the scope are:
     Paper sacks or bags that are of a \1/6\ or \1/7\ barrel 
size (i.e., 11.5-12.5 inches in width, 6.5-7.5 inches in depth, and 
13.5-17.5 inches in height) with flat paper handles or die-cut 
handles;
     Paper sacks or bags with die-cut handles, a grams per 
square meter paper weight of less than 86 GSM, and a height of less 
than 11.5 inches; and
     Paper sacks or bags (i) with non-paper handles made 
wholly of woven ribbon or other similar woven fabric \14\ and (ii) 
that are finished with folded tops or for which tied knots or t-bar 
aglets (made of wood, metal, or plastic) are used to secure the 
handles to the bags.
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    \14\ Paper sacks or bags with handles made of braided or twisted 
materials, such as rope or cord, do not qualify for this exclusion.
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    The above-referenced dimensions are provided for paper bags in 
the opened position. The height of the bag is the distance from the 
bottom fold edge to the top edge (i.e., excluding the height of 
handles that extend above the top edge). The depth of the bag is the 
distance from the front of the bag edge to the back of the bag edge 
(typically measured at the bottom of the bag). The width of the bag 
is measured from the left to the right edges of the front and back 
panels (upon which the handles typically are located).
    This merchandise is currently classifiable under Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings 
4819.30.0040 and 4819.40.0040. The HTSUS subheadings are provided 
for convenience and customs purposes only; the written description 
of the scope is dispositive.

[FR Doc. 2024-15746 Filed 7-17-24; 8:45 am]
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