MOSCOW (MRC) -- The US has decided to continue applying anti-dumping duties on imports of polyethylene (PE) retail carrier bags from Vietnam and some other countries, as per GV.
The Sai Gon Giai phong (Liberated Saigon) daily reported the Vietnam Competition Authority as saying that the decision comes under the five-year (sunset) review process carried out by the US International Trade Commission (USITC).
The USITC determined that revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on PE retail carrier bags from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam would likely lead to a continuation or reoccurrence of material injury.
The anti-dumping duty rates are imposed at between 52.3%- 76.11%.
On 27 July 2015, the US Department of Commerce issued the determinations of a sunset review, which kept the anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty orders in place.
As MRC wrote previously, in 2012, Italy became the first European country to ban non-biodegradable PE bags. Regulations as to the permitted levels of degradability are still controversial.
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