# 2024-31450: US Declares War on Chinese Wine Bottles for Being Too Cheap

2024-31450, Certain Glass Wine Bottles From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-02, effective 2025-01-02 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31450
- Title: Certain Glass Wine Bottles From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-02
- Effective: 2025-01-02
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

US Declares War on Chinese Wine Bottles for Being Too Cheap

## Summary

The U.S. government found that glass wine bottles from China are being sold in the U.S. for less than their fair price between April and September 2023. Because of this, new rules will make importing these bottles more expensive starting January 2, 2025. This helps protect American businesses from unfair competition and keeps the market fair.

## Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain glass wine bottles (wine bottles) from the People's Republic of China (China) are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV) for the period of investigation (POI) April 1, 2023, through September 30, 2023.

## Effects PRIA read

- Estimated Antidumping Deposit Rates Start: cost, high. Starting January 2, 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will require cash deposits for estimated antidumping duties on certain glass wine bottles from China. The notice lists specific deposit rates by producer/exporter, including 29.31%, 30.99%, 31.24% for named companies, and a China-wide rat…
- Retroactive Suspension of Liquidation Backdated: cost, high. Commerce directed that suspension of liquidation of entries of the subject wine bottles continue from the Preliminary Determination date (August 9, 2024) and, because critical circumstances were found, that suspension applies to unliquidated entries entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumpti…
- China-Wide Adverse Facts Available Rate Assigned: cost, high. Commerce assigned an adverse facts available (AFA) dumping rate of 218.15 percent to the China-wide entity for this investigation. That 218.15% rate will apply as the cash deposit rate for any Chinese producer/exporter that has not established eligibility for a separate rate.
- Which Wine Bottles Are Covered: cost, medium. The rule covers certain narrow-neck glass wine bottles with nominal capacity of 740 to 760 milliliters, nominal total height 24.8 cm to 35.6 cm, base diameter 4.6 cm to 11.4 cm, and mouth outer diameter 25 mm to 37.9 mm; many common wine shapes are listed. Exclusions include borosilicate pharmaceut…

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## Sources
- [2024-31450 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/02/2024-31450/certain-glass-wine-bottles-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china-final-affirmative-determination-of)
- [2024-31450 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-02/pdf/2024-31450.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31450 (as of 2026-06-08).