Notice2025-15245
Polypropylene Corrugated Boxes From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
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Published
August 12, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 12, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38735-38736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15245]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-552-850]
Polypropylene Corrugated Boxes From the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-
Fair-Value Investigation
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable August 12, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex Cipolla at (202) 482-4956, AD/CVD
Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On April 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated a less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of imports of
polypropylene corrugated boxes from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
(Vietnam).\1\ Currently, the preliminary determination is due no later
than August 25, 2025.
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\1\ See Polypropylene Corrugated Boxes from the People's
Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation
of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 90 FR 15544 (April 14, 2025)
(Initiation Notice).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determination
Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in an
LTFV investigation within 140 days after the date on which Commerce
initiated the investigation. However, section 733(c)(1)(A)(b)(1) of the
Act permits Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination until no
later than 190 days after the date on which Commerce initiated the
investigation if: (A) the petitioner \2\ makes a timely request for a
postponement; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties concerned are
cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated, and
that additional time is necessary to make a preliminary determination.
Under 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must submit a request for
postponement 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the
preliminary determination and must state the reasons for the request.
Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling reasons to
deny the request.
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\2\ The petitioners are CoolSeal USA Inc.; Inteplast Group
Corporation; SeaCa Plastic Packaging; and Technology Container Corp.
(collectively, petitioners).
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On July 30, 2025, the petitioners submitted a timely request that
Commerce postpone the preliminary determination in the LTFV
investigation.\3\ The petitioners stated that they request postponement
``because the mandatory respondent in this investigation only recently
submitted its initial responses to {Commerce's{time} antidumping
questionnaire, and {the p{time} etitioners have identified numerous
instances in the reporting that require clarification, correction, and
supplemental information. In addition, submission of surrogate value
information in this investigation has not yet been possible because of
extensions of the deadline for submitting factors of production data
and improper bracketing thereof in the respondent's initial Section D
questionnaire response.'' \4\
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\3\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Petitioners' Request for
Postponement of the Preliminary Determination,'' dated July, 30,
2025.
\4\ Id. at 2.
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For the reasons stated above and because there are no compelling
reasons to deny the request, Commerce, in accordance with section
733(c)(1)(A) of the Act, is postponing the deadline for the preliminary
determination by 50 days (i.e., 190 days after the date on which this
investigation was initiated). As a result, Commerce will issue its
preliminary determination no later than
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October 14, 2025. In accordance with section 735(a)(1) of the Act and
19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the deadline for the final determination of this
investigation will continue to be 75 days after the date of the
preliminary determination, unless postponed at a later date.
This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 733(c)(2)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
Dated: August 6, 2025.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-15245 Filed 8-11-25; 8:45 am]
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