• On April 23, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced its affirmative preliminary determination in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of certain glass containers from China.
• The AD law provides U.S. businesses and workers with a transparent, quasi-judicial, and internationally accepted mechanism to seek relief from the market distorting effects caused by injurious dumping of imports into the United States, establishing an opportunity to compete on a level playing field.
• For the purpose of AD investigations, dumping occurs when a foreign company sells an imported product in the United States at less than fair value.
• Commerce calculated a preliminary dumping rate of 24.90 percent for mandatory respondent Guangdong Huaxing Glass Co., Ltd. and 7.60 percent for mandatory respondent Qixia Changyu Glass Co., Ltd. Commerce assigned a preliminary dumping rate of 13.76 percent to those companies not individually examined that were found to be eligible for a separate rate. Commerce assigned a preliminary dumping rate of 255.68 percent to all other producers/exporters of certain glass containers from China.
• As a result of the preliminary affirmative determination, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to require, where appropriate, cash deposits for imports of certain glass containers from China based on these preliminary rates.
• The petitioner is American Glass Packaging Coalition, whose members are Anchor Glass Container Corporation (Tampa, FL) and Ardagh Glass, Inc. (Chicago IL).
• The scope of this investigation is listed in Appendix 1.
• In 2018, imports of certain glass containers from China were valued at an estimated $370.8 million.
• The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance’s Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov. Please refer to case number A-570-114.
NEXT STEPS
• Commerce is scheduled to announce its final determination by September 12, 2020.
• If Commerce makes an affirmative final determination, and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) makes an affirmative final determination that imports of certain glass containers from China materially injure, or threaten material injury to, the domestic industry, Commerce will issue an AD order. If either Commerce or the ITC issues a negative final determination, no AD order will be issued. The U.S. Department of Commerce | International Trade Administration | Enforcement and Compliance ITC is scheduled to make its final injury determination approximately 45 days after Commerce issues its final determination, if affirmative. Read More →
