Notice2026-03419
Paper File Folders From the Kingdom of Cambodia: Countervailing Duty Order
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Published
February 20, 2026
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 a countervailing duty (CVD) order on paper file folders from the Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia).
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 34 (Friday, February 20, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8205-8207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-03419]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-555-006]
Paper File Folders From the Kingdom of Cambodia: Countervailing
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 a countervailing duty (CVD) order
on paper file folders from the Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia).
DATES: Applicable February 20, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shane Subler or Brandon James, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6241 or (202)
482-7472, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 705(d) and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), on December 29, 2025, Commerce published in
the Federal Register its affirmative final determination that
countervailable subsidies are being provided to
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producers and exporters of paper file folders from Cambodia.\1\
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\1\ See Paper File Folders from the Kingdom of Cambodia: Final
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 90 FR 60631 (December
29, 2025) (Final Determination), and accompanying Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
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On February 12, 2026, pursuant to section 705(d) of the Act, the
ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determination that an
industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of
subsidized imports of paper file folders from Cambodia within the
meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.\2\
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\2\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final
Determination,'' dated February 12, 2026.
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order are paper file folders from
Cambodia. For a complete description of the scope of the order, see the
appendix to this notice.
Order
Based on the affirmative final determination by the ITC that an
industry in the United States is materially injured within the meaning
of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of subsidized imports
of paper file folders from Cambodia,\3\ in accordance with section
705(c)(2) of the Act, Commerce is issuing this CVD order. Moreover,
because the ITC determined that imports of paper file folders from
Cambodia are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries
of subject merchandise from Cambodia entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption, are subject to the assessment of CVDs.
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\3\ Id.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce
will direct Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further
instruction by Commerce, CVDs on all relevant entries of paper file
folders from Cambodia, which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after March 28, 2025, the date of publication of
the Preliminary Determination, but will not include entries occurring
after the expiration of the provisional measures period and before the
publication of the ITC's final injury determination under section
705(b) of the Act, as further described in the ``Provisional Measures''
section of this notice.\4\
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\4\ See Paper File Folders from the Kingdom of Cambodia:
Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty
Determination, 90 FR 14110 (March 28, 2025) (Preliminary
Determination).
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Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits
In accordance with section 706 of the Act, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of paper file
folders from Cambodia, 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, pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, to
instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the amounts as indicated
below. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's
final affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register, CBP
must require, at the same time as importers would deposit estimated
normal customs duties on the subject merchandise, a cash deposit for
each entry of subject merchandise equal to the subsidy rates listed
below.\5\ The all-others rate applies to all producers or exporters not
specifically listed below, as appropriate.
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\5\ See section 706(a)(3) of the Act.
Estimated Countervailable Subsidy Rates
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Subsidy rate
Company (percent ad
valorem)
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Three Color Stone Stationery (Cambodia) Co., Ltd........ 30.38
All Others.............................................. 30.38
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Provisional Measures
Section 703(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in
effect for more than four months. Commerce published the Preliminary
Determination on March 28, 2025.\6\ As such, the four-month period
beginning on the date of the publication of the Preliminary
Determination ended on July 25, 2025.
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\6\ See Preliminary Determination.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act, we
instructed CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to
liquidate, without regard to CVDs, unliquidated entries of paper file
folders from Cambodia entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption, on or after July 26, 2025, the date on which the
provisional measures expired, until and through the day preceding the
date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the
Federal Register. 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.\7\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published the
Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\8\ 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.\9\
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\7\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20,
2021) (Final Rule).
\8\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List;
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021)
(Procedural Guidance).
\9\ Id.
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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.'' \10\
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\10\ 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 C-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
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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,\11\ 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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\11\ 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 at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>.
Special Instructions for Petitioners 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.'' \12\ Accordingly, as stated
above, the petitioner and the foreign governments should submit their
initial entries of appearance after publication of this notice in order
to appear in the first annual inquiry service lists for these orders.
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the foreign
governments 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 foreign governments 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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\12\ See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the CVD order with respect to paper file
folders from Cambodia, pursuant to section 706(a) of the Act.
Interested parties can find a list of antidumping duty and CVD orders
currently in effect at <a href="https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html">https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html</a>.
This CVD order is issued and published in accordance with section
706(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: February 17, 2026.
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 folders,
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 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. 2026-03419 Filed 2-19-26; 8:45 am]
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