Notice2026-07054

Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip From Taiwan: Final Results and Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, In Part; 2023-2024

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Published
April 13, 2026

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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from Taiwan was sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR) July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18823-18825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-07054]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-837]


Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip From Taiwan: 
Final Results and Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
In Part; 2023-2024

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

DATES: Applicable April 13, 2026.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from 
Taiwan was sold in the United States at less than normal value during 
the period of review (POR) July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles DeFilippo, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3797.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On October 3, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register the 
Preliminary Results and invited interested parties to comment.\1\ Due 
to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown, on 
November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative 
proceedings by 47 days.\2\ Additionally, due to a backlog of documents 
that were electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service 
System (ACCESS) during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24, 
2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an 
additional 21 days.\3\ Accordingly, the deadline for these final 
results is now April 7, 2026.
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    \1\ See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from 
Taiwan: Preliminary Results and Preliminary Intent To Rescind, In 
Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024, 90 FR 
48041 (October 3, 2025) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the 
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated 
November 24, 2025.
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    For a summary of the events that occurred since the Preliminary 
Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\4\ The Issues and 
Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically 
via ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In addition, a complete version of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade/gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade/gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the 2023-2024 Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, 
and Strip from Taiwan,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted 
by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>5</SUP>
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    \5\ See Notice of Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: 
Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip (PET Film) from 
Taiwan, 67 FR 44174 (July 1, 2002) (Order).
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    The merchandise subject to the Order is PET film from Taiwan. For a 
full

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description of the scope, see the Preliminary Results PDM.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in case and rebuttal briefs by interested parties 
in this administrative review are addressed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum is attached as an appendix to this notice. Based on our 
review of the record and comments received from interested parties, we 
did not make any changes from the Preliminary Results.

Final Partial Rescission of Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to 
rescind an administrative review of an antidumping duty (AD) order when 
there are no reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR 
for which liquidation is suspended.\6\ Normally, upon completion of an 
administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the AD 
assessment rate calculated for the review period.\7\ Therefore, for an 
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, 
suspended entry that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the AD assessment rate calculated for 
the review period.\8\
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    \6\ See, e.g., Dioctyl Terephthalate from the Republic of Korea: 
Rescission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2021-2022, 88 FR 
24758 (April 24, 2023); see also Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-
to-Length Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Recission of 
Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021, 88 FR 4154 (January 
24, 2023).
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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    On October 3, 2025, we published our intent to rescind, in part, 
this administrative review for Shinkong Materials Technology 
Corporation (SMTC) and Shinkong Synthetic Fiber Corporation (SSFC), 
which we consider to be a single entity (SMTC/SSFC).\9\ The POR entry 
totals reflected in the Attachment of the CBP Data Memorandum reflected 
no POR entries of subject merchandise from these companies.\10\ We 
invited parties to comment, and we received no comments. Accordingly, 
in the absence of suspended entries of subject merchandise during the 
POR, we are hereby rescinding this administrative review for SMTC/SSFC, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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    \9\ See Preliminary Results, 90 FR at 48041.
    \10\ See Memorandum, ``Release of Customs Entry Data,'' dated 
September 27, 2024.
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Final Results of Review

    As a result of this review, we determine the following weighted-
average dumping margins exist for the period July 1, 2023, through June 
30, 2024:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                    Producer/Exporter                     dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Nan Ya Plastics Corporation.............................            1.06
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in 
connection with these final results of review to interested parties 
within five days after public announcement of the final results or, if 
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of 
publication of the notice of final results in the Federal Register, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, 
and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of 
subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we calculated importer-specific 
ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount 
of dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total 
entered value of those sales. Where either the respondent's weighted-
average dumping margin is zero or de minimis within the meaning of 19 
CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an importer-specific assessment rate is de 
minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Nan 
Ya Plastics Corporation for which it did not know that its merchandise 
was destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate 
such entries at the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-
value (LTFV) investigation of 2.40 percent ad valorem,\11\ if there is 
no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
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    \11\ See Order.
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    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the 
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will 
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties 
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 
90 days of publication).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    Upon publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the 
following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all shipments 
of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of 
this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2) of the 
Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the company subject to this review 
will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in 
these finals results of the review; (2) for merchandise exported by 
producers or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a 
prior completed segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will 
continue to be the company-specific rate published in the completed 
segment for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in this review, a prior review, or the LTFV investigation, but 
the producer has been covered in a prior completed segment of this 
proceeding, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate established in 
the completed segment for the most recent period for the producer of 
the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers 
or exporters will continue to be 2.40 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the LTFV investigation for this proceeding.\12\ These 
cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \12\ See Order.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to an 
APO of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of 
proprietary

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information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern business proprietary 
information in this segment of the proceeding. Timely written 
notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion 
to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply 
with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a violation which 
subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    These final results are being issued and published in accordance 
with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: April 7, 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

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment: Whether to Apply the Average-to-Transaction (A-to-T) 
Methodology
V. Recommendation
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