Notice2025-18886
Paper File Folders From Sri Lanka: Antidumping Duty Order
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Published
September 29, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing an antidumping duty (AD) order on paper file folders (file folders) from Sri Lanka.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 186 (Monday, September 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46553-46555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18886]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-542-806]
Paper File Folders From Sri Lanka: Antidumping Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S.
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing an antidumping duty (AD) order on
paper file folders (file folders) from Sri Lanka.
DATES: Applicable September 29, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samuel Frost, AD/CVD Operations,
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-8180.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), on August 8, 2025, Commerce published its
affirmative final determination of sales at less than fair value (LTFV)
of file folders from Sri Lanka.\1\
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\1\ See Paper File Folders from Sri Lanka: Final Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value, 90 FR 38460 (August
8, 2025).
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On September 22, 2025, pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act, the
ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determinations that an
industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of dumped
imports of file folders from Sri Lanka within the meaning of section
735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.\2\
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\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determination,'' dated September 22, 2025.
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Scope of the Order
The product covered by this order is file folders from Sri Lanka.
For a complete description of the scope of the order, see the appendix
to this notice.
AD Order
On September 22, 2025, in accordance with section 735(d) of the
Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its final determination that an
industry in the United States is materially injured, within the meaning
of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, by reason of imports of file
folders from Sri Lanka that are sold in the United States at LTFV.
Therefore, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736(a) of the Act,
Commerce is issuing this AD order. Because the ITC determined that
imports of file folders from Sri Lanka are materially injuring a U.S.
industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from Sri Lanka,
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 on all
relevant entries of file folders from Sri Lanka. Antidumping duties
will be assessed on unliquidated entries of file folders entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 29, 2025, the
date of publication of the Preliminary Determination,\3\ 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 below.
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\3\ See Paper File Folders from Sri Lanka: Preliminary
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 90 FR
22696 (May 29, 2025) (Preliminary Determination).
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Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
Except as noted in the ``Provisional Measures'' section of this
notice, in accordance with section 736 of the Act, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries
of file folders from Sri Lanka, effective on the date of publication of
the ITC's final affirmative injury determination in the Federal
Register. 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 dumping margins as indicated in the table below.
Accordingly, effective on the date of publication in the Federal
Register of the ITC final injury determination, CBP must require, at
the same time that importers would normally deposit estimated duties on
the merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed below. The
all-others rate applies to all producers or exporters not specifically
listed, as appropriate.
Estimated Dumping Margins
The estimated dumping margins are as follows:
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Dumping
Exporter/producer margin
(percent)
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Lanka Educational Products Pvt Ltd.......................... * 91.28
All Others.................................................. 57.43
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* This rate is based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Provisional Measures
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.
Commerce published its affirmative Preliminary Determination on May 29,
2025. Commerce's Final Determination was not extended and was published
on August 8, 2025. Therefore, the four-month period beginning on the
date of the publication of the Preliminary Determination ended on
September 25, 2025. Pursuant to section 737(b) of the Act, the
collection of cash deposits at the rates listed above will begin on the
date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination.
Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act, Commerce
will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to
liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries
of file folders from Sri Lanka entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after September 26, 2025, the first day
provisional measures were no longer in effect, until and through the
day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final injury
determination in the Federal Register.
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Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will
resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final determination in
the Federal Register.
Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists
On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the
Federal Register.\4\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the
Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\5\ The Final Rule and
Procedural Guidance 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.
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\4\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20,
2021) (Final Rule).
\5\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
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In accordance with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in
the Federal Register 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 Countervailing Duty
Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>, within five business days of publication of the
notice of the order. Each annual inquiry service list will be saved in
ACCESS, under each case number, and under a specific segment type
called ``AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.'' \6\
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\6\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment
Specific Information (SSI) field which will display the month in
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL-January
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance,\7\ the new annual
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is
published.
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\7\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206.
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Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of
appearance to remove or otherwise modify their list of members and
representatives, or to update contact information. Any changes or
announcements pertaining to these procedures will be posted to the
ACCESS website.
Special Instructions for Petitioner and Foreign Governments
In the Final Rule, Commerce stated that, ``after an initial request
and placement on the annual inquiry service list, both petitioners and
foreign governments will automatically be placed on the annual inquiry
service list in the years that follow.'' \8\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioner and the Government of Sri Lanka should submit
their initial entries of appearance after publication of this notice in
order to appear in the first annual inquiry service lists for this
order. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the
Government of Sri Lanka will not need to resubmit their entries of
appearance each year to continue to be included on the annual inquiry
service list. However, the petitioner and the Government of Sri Lanka
are responsible for making amendments to their entries of appearance
during the annual update to the annual inquiry service list in
accordance with the procedures described above.
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\8\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the AD order with respect to file folders
from Sri Lanka pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. Interested
parties can find a list of AD and countervailing duty orders currently
in effect at <a href="https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html">https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html</a>.
This order is issued and published in accordance with section
736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: September 24, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Scope of the Order
The products within the scope of this order are file folders
consisting primarily of paper, paperboard, pressboard, or other
cellulose material, whether coated or uncoated, that has been folded
(or creased in preparation to be folded), glued, taped, bound, or
otherwise assembled to be suitable for holding documents. The scope
includes all such folders, regardless of color, whether or not
expanding, whether or not laminated, and with or without tabs,
fasteners, closures, hooks, rods, hangers, pockets, gussets, or
internal dividers. The term ``primarily'' as used in the first
sentence of this scope means 50 percent or more of the total product
weight, exclusive of the weight of fasteners, closures, hooks, rods,
hangers, removable tabs, and similar accessories, and exclusive of
the weight of the packaging.
Subject folders have the following dimensions in their folded
and closed position: lengths and widths of at least 8 inches and no
greater than 17 inches, regardless of depth.
The scope covers all varieties of folders, including but not
limited to manila folders, hanging folders, fastener holders,
classification folders, expanding folders, pockets, jackets, and
wallets.
Excluded from the scope are:
<bullet> mailing envelopes with a flap bearing one or more
adhesive strips that can be used permanently to seal the entire
length of a side such that, when sealed, the folder is closed on all
four sides;
<bullet> binders, with two or more rings to hold documents in
place, made of paperboard or pressboard encased entirely in plastic;
<bullet> binders consisting of a front cover, back cover, and
spine, with or without a flap; to be excluded, a mechanism with two
or more metal rings must be included on or adjacent to the interior
spine;
<bullet> non-expanding folders with a depth exceeding 2.5 inches
and that are closed or closeable on the top, bottom, and all four
sides (e.g., boxes or cartons);
<bullet> expanding folders that have: (1) 13 or more pockets;
(2) a flap covering the top; (3) a latching mechanism made of
plastic and/or metal to close the flap; and (4) an affixed plastic
or metal carry handle;
<bullet> folders that have an outer surface (other than the
gusset, handles, and/or closing mechanisms, if any) that is covered
entirely with fabric, leather, and/or faux leather;
<bullet> fashion folders, which are defined as folders with all
of the following characteristics: (1) plastic lamination covering
the entire exterior of the folder; (2) printing, foil stamping,
embossing (i.e., raised relief patterns that are recessed on the
opposite side), and/or debossing (i.e., recessed relief patterns
that are raised on the opposite side), covering the entire exterior
surface area of the folder; (3) at least two
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visible and printed or foil stamped colors (other than the color of
the base paper), each of which separately covers no less than 10
percent of the entire exterior surface area; and (4) patterns,
pictures, designs, or artwork covering no less than thirty percent
of the exterior surface area of the folder;
<bullet> portfolios, which are folders having: (1) a width of at
least 16 inches when open flat; (2) no tabs or dividers; and (3) one
or more pockets that are suitable for holding letter size documents
and that cover at least 15 percent of the surface area of the
relevant interior side or sides; and
<bullet> report covers, which are folders having: (1) no tabs,
dividers, or pockets; and (2) one or more fasteners or clips, each
of which is permanently affixed to the center fold, to hold papers
securely in place.
Imports of the subject merchandise are provided for under
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) category
4820.30.0040. Subject imports may also enter under other HTSUS
classifications. While the HTSUS subheading is provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the
scope of this order is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2025-18886 Filed 9-26-25; 8:45 am]
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