Commerce Intends to Expand Exemption From AD Duties on Polyester Staple Fiber From South Korea and Taiwan
The Commerce Department intends to amend the scope of its antidumping duty orders on polyester staple fiber from South Korea and Taiwan (A-580-839/A-583-833), it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The change, requested by domestic manufacturers, would avoid overlap between the existing duties of PSF and ongoing antidumping duty investigations on low-melt polyester staple fiber, Commerce said. Commerce recently ordered suspension of liquidation and new cash deposit requirements in its preliminary AD duty determinations on low-melt polyester staple fiber (see 1802010027).
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Specifically, Commerce would replace language in the current scope of the existing AD duty orders that says: “In addition, low-melt PSF is excluded from these orders. Low-melt PSF is defined as a bi-component fiber with an outer sheath that melts at a significantly lower temperature than its inner core.” The new language would be slightly different, providing that: “{i}n addition, low-melt PSF is excluded from these orders. Low-melt PSF is defined as a bi-component polyester fiber having a polyester fiber component that melts at a lower temperature than the other polyester fiber component.”
If it finalizes its decision, Commerce will retroactively apply the partial revocation to entries on or after the period covered by the most recently completed administrative review of the antidumping duty orders on PSF. That would mean Commerce would order CBP to end suspension of liquidation and collection of cash deposits on unliquidated entries entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after May 1, 2017.
(Federal Register 04/19/18)