Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products From the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-570-182, A-552-845]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products From the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> Based on the affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing the antidumping (AD) orders on thermoformed molded fiber products (molded fiber products) from the People's Republic of China (China) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam). </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable January 27, 2026. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Dennis McClure or Matthew Lipka (China) and Zachary Shaykin (Vietnam), AD/CVD Operations, Offices VIII and IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5973, (202) 482-7976, or (202) 482-2638, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), on September 30, 2025, Commerce published its affirmative final determinations of sales at less-than-fair-value (LFTV) of molded fiber products from China and Vietnam. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products from the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 90 FR 46800 (September 30, 2025) ( <E T="03">China Final Determination</E> ); <E T="03">see also Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 90 FR 46791 (September 30, 2025) ( <E T="03">Vietnam Final Determination</E> ) (collectively, the <E T="03">Final Determinations</E> ). </FTNT> On January 5, 2025, the ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determinations that an industry in the United States is materially injured within the meanings of 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, by reason of imports of thermoformed molded fiber products from China and Vietnam sold in the United States at less than fair value. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> ITC's Letter, “Notification of ITC Final Determination, ” dated January 5, 2026 (ITC Notification Letter). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Orders</HD> The products covered by these orders are molded fiber products from China and Vietnam. For a complete description of the scope of the orders, <E T="03">see</E> the appendix to this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Antidumping Duty Orders</HD> Based on the above-referenced final determinations, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce is issuing these AD orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of molded fiber products from China and Vietnam are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from China and Vietnam, 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 molded fiber products from China and Vietnam. Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of molded fiber products from China and Vietnam entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 12, 2025, the date of publication of the <E T="03">Preliminary Determinations,</E> <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> but will not include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and before publication of the ITC's final injury determination, as further described in the “Provisional Measures” section of this notice. <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional Measures,</E> 90 FR 20147 (May 12, 2025), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM); <E T="03">Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products from the People's Republic of China: Correction and Amended Preliminary Determination at Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 90 FR 24590 (June 11, 2025); <E T="03">Thermoformed Molded Fiber Products from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional Measures,</E> 90 FR 20153 (May 12, 2025), and accompanying PDM (collectively, the <E T="03">Preliminary Determinations</E> ). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits</HD> In accordance with section 736 of the Act, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of molded fiber products from China and Vietnam effective the date of publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determinations in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further notice. Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins, adjusted by the relevant subsidy offsets, indicated in the <E T="03">Final Determinations.</E> <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> The rates for the China- and Vietnam-wide entities applies to all producers and exporters from China and Vietnam, respectively, not specifically listed, as appropriate. <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See China Final Determination,</E> 90 FR at 46802-03; <E T="03">Vietnam Final Determination,</E> 90 FR at 46793. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Provisional Measures</HD> Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation 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 extend the four-month period to no more than six months. At the request of exporters that account for a significant proportion of exports of thermoformed molded fiber products from China and Vietnam, Commerce extended the four-month period to six months in these investigations. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Determinations,</E> 90 FR at 20152, 20155. </FTNT> The provisional measures period, beginning on the date of publication of the <E T="03">Preliminary Determinations,</E> ended on November 8, 2025. Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act and our practice, <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce instructed CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of thermoformed molded fiber products from China and Vietnam entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after November 8, 2025, the final day on which the provisional measures were in effect, until and through the day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determination in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final determination in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from India, Italy, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination for India and Taiwan, and Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 81 FR 48390, 48392 (July 25, 2016). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists</HD> On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the <E T="03">Final Rule</E> in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the <E T="03">Procedural Guidance</E> in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <E T="03">The Final Rule</E> and <E T="03">Procedural Guidance</E> 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. <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws,</E> 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) ( <E T="03">Final Rule</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List; and Informational Sessions,</E> 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021) ( <E T="03">Procedural Guidance</E> ). </FTNT> In accordance with the <E T="03">Procedural Guidance,</E> for an order published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> 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 Countervail ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 19k characters. 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