Uncle Sam Slaps Tariffs on Cheap Chinese Paper Plates
Published Date: 3/20/2025
Notice
Summary
Starting March 20, 2025, the U.S. is putting extra taxes on certain paper plates imported from China, Thailand, and Vietnam because they were sold at unfairly low prices. This move helps protect American paper plate makers from being hurt by cheap imports. Importers from these countries will now pay more, which could change prices and trade patterns.
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Antidumping duties imposed on paper plates
Starting March 20, 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will require importers to deposit antidumping duties on certain paper plates from China, Thailand, and Vietnam equal to the estimated rates listed in the order. Examples of the required cash deposit rates include China producers with rates of 267.63% and 515.40%, many Thai exporters with a 5.57% rate (and some Thai exporters assigned 73.17%), and Vietnamese exporter Go‑Pak with a 30.42% rate (Vietnam‑wide 165.27%).
Retroactive duties on certain Chinese imports
For China, retroactive antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of subject paper plates entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after June 7, 2024 and before September 5, 2024. For certain entries exported by Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co., Ltd., suspension of liquidation will apply to entries on or after October 30, 2024.
Refunds for Thailand and Vietnam entries in retro window
Because the International Trade Commission found no critical circumstances for Thailand and Vietnam, Commerce will instruct CBP to lift suspension of liquidation and refund any cash deposits for estimated antidumping duties on entries of paper plates from Thailand and Vietnam entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after June 7, 2024 but before September 5, 2024.
U.S. industry protected by AD orders
Commerce issued antidumping duty orders after the International Trade Commission found that U.S. producers of paper plates were materially injured by imports from China, Thailand, and Vietnam. The orders are intended to address that injury by assessing duties on the covered imports.
No duties for entries during provisional-measures gap
For Thailand and certain companies in China and Vietnam, the provisional suspension of liquidation ended on March 3, 2025; Commerce instructed CBP to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of paper plates entered or withdrawn for consumption after March 3, 2025 up through the day before publication of the ITC's final determinations. Suspension of liquidation and collection of cash deposits resumed on the date the ITC's final determinations were published.
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