Notice2026-20547
Certain Paper Shopping Bags From India: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
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Published
October 7, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Ckaari Packaging Private Limited (Ckaari) and Velvin Packaging Solution Private Limited, Velvin Paper Products, and the Velvin Group (collectively, Velvin) made sales of certain paper shopping bags (paper bags) from India at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025. In addition, we are rescinding the review, in part, with respect to seven companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 193 (Wednesday, October 7, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64140-64143]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-20547]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-917]
Certain Paper Shopping Bags From India: Preliminary Results and
Rescission, in Part of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-
2025
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily
determines that Ckaari Packaging Private Limited (Ckaari) and Velvin
Packaging Solution Private Limited, Velvin Paper Products, and the
Velvin Group (collectively, Velvin) made sales of certain paper
shopping bags (paper bags) from India at less than normal value (NV)
during the period of review (POR), January 3, 2024, through June 30,
2025. In addition, we are rescinding the review, in part, with respect
to seven companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results of review.
DATES: Applicable October 7, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carter Sherwin or Gorden Struck, AD/
CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4260 or (202)
482-8151, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On August 22, 2025, based on timely requests for review, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an administrative
review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on paper bags from India.\1\
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\1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 41043, 41045 (August 22, 2025)
(Initiation Notice).
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Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown,
on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled deadlines for this administrative
proceeding by an additional 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 deadlines for
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this administrative proceeding by an additional 21 days.\3\
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\2\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\3\ See Memorandum,``Trolling of All Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
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On December 15, 2025, Commerce selected Ckaari and Velvin as the
mandatory respondents in this review.\4\ This review covers 23
producers and/or exporters of the subject merchandise. On May 6 and
September 25, 2026, we extended the preliminary results of this by 113
and two days, respectively.\5\ Accordingly, the deadline to complete
the preliminary results of this review is September 30, 2026.
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Respondent Selection,'' dated December 15,
2025.
\5\ See Memoranda, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025,''
dated May 6, 2026; and ``Second Extension of Deadline for
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-
2025,'' dated May 25, 2026.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\6\
A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is attached as an appendix to this notice.\7\ The Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via
ACCESS, which is available to registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum can be accessed at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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\6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Order on
Certain Paper Shopping Bags from India; 2024-2025,'' dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
\7\ See Appendix I, infra.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the Order is paper bags from India. For
a complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to
rescind an administrative review of an AD order where it concludes that
there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the
POR.\8\ Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the
suspended entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate for the
review period.\9\ 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 POR.\10\
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\8\ See, e.g., 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).
\9\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\10\ See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co. v. United States,
380 F.Supp.3d 1328, 1337 (CIT 2019), at 12 (referring to section
751(a) of the Act, the U.S. Court of International Trade held that
``{w{time} hile the statute does not explicitly require that an
entry be suspended as a prerequisite for establishing entitlement to
a review, it does explicitly state the determined rate will be used
as the liquidation rate for the reviewed entries. This result can
only obtain if the liquidation of entries has been suspended''; see
also Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and
Final Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019, 86 FR 36102, and
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 4; and Solid
Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian Federation:
Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 77
FR 65532 (October 29, 2012) (noting that ``for an administrative
review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry
to be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment rate'').
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Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind
the instant review regarding the companies listed in Appendix III
because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject
merchandise from these companies during the POR and invited interested
parties to comment.\11\ No party commented on this memorandum. In the
absence of any suspended entries of subject merchandise from these
companies during the POR, we are rescinding this administrative review
for the companies listed in Appendix III, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(d)(3).
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\11\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In
Part,'' dated March 2, 2026.
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Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Export price
and constructed export price are calculated in accordance with section
772 of the Act. NV is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the
Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rate for Non-Individually Examined Companies
The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment
of a rate to apply to companies not selected for individual examination
when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review
pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to
section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for
calculating the all-others rate in a market economy investigation, for
guidance when calculating the rate for companies which were not
selected for individual examination in an administrative review.
Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is
normally an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated
weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters and
producers individually investigated, excluding any rates that are zero
or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), and any rates determined
entirely on the basis of facts available. Where the weighted-average
dumping margin for each of the individually examined companies is zero,
de minimis, or based entirely on facts available, section 735(c)(5)(B)
of the Act provides that Commerce may use ``any reasonable method to
establish the estimated all-others rate for exporters and producers not
individually investigated, including averaging the estimated weighted-
average dumping margins determined for the exporters and producers
individually investigated.''
In this administrative review, we preliminarily calculated
weighted-average dumping margins for the mandatory respondents, Velvin
and Ckaari, that are not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts
available. Accordingly, we are preliminarily assigning to the companies
under review that were not selected for individual examination a
weighted-average dumping margin equal to the weighted average of the
estimated weighted-average dumping margins calculated for Velvin and
Ckaari, weighted by the mandatory respondents' publicly ranged total
sales values, consistent with 19 CFR 351.109(g).\12\
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\12\ With two respondents under examination, Commerce normally
calculates: (A) a weighted-average of the dumping margins calculated
for the examined respondents; (B) a simple average of the dumping
margins calculated for the examined respondents; and (C) a weighted-
average of the dumping margins calculated for the examined
respondents using each company's publicly ranged U.S. sale
quantities for the merchandise under consideration. Commerce then
compares (B) and (C) to (A) and selects the rate closest to (A) as
the most appropriate rate for all other producers and exporters.
See, e.g., Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Reviews, Final Results of Changed-Circumstances
Review, and Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663
(September 1, 2010); see also Memorandum, ``Calculation of the
Weighted-Average Dumping Margin for the Companies Not Selected for
Individual Examination,'' dated concurrently with this notice.
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Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the
following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the
period January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025:
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Ckaari Packaging Private Limited............................ 1.23
Velvin Packaging Solution Private Limited; Velvin Paper 3.01
Products...................................................
Companies Not Selected for Individual Review \13\........... 2.44
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\13\ The exporters or producers not selected for individual
review are listed in Appendix II.
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Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis
performed to interested parties for these preliminary results within
five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this
notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Verification
Commerce received a timely request from Novolex Holdings, LLC (the
petitioner) to verify the information submitted in this administrative
review, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.307(b)(1)(iv).\14\ Commerce does not
intend to verify the information submitted by the mandatory respondents
in the course of this administrative review because Commerce conducted
verification in the initial investigation and the criterion specified
in subpart (B) of 19 CFR 351.307(b)(V) has not been satisfied.
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\14\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Request for Verification,''
dated January 30, 2026.
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Public Comment
Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309(c)(1)(ii), we have modified the deadline for interested parties
to submit case briefs to Commerce to no later than 21 days after the
date of the publication of this notice.\15 \Rebuttal briefs, limited to
issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days
after the date for filing case briefs.\16\ Interested parties who
submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit:
(1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of
authorities.\17\ All briefs must be filed electronically using ACCESS.
An electronically filed document must be received successfully in its
entirety in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established
deadline.
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\15\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
\16\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative Protective
Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29,
2023) (APO and Service Procedures).
\17\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2)(iii) and (d)(2)(iii), we
request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their
briefs a public summary for each issue raised in their briefs.\18\
Further, we request that interested parties limit their public
executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not
including citations. We intend to use the public executive summaries as
the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision
memorandum that will accompany the final results in this administrative
review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for
relevant citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note
that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\19\
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\18\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.
\19\ See APO and Service Procedures.
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Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce,
filed electronically via ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30
days after the date of publication of this notice. Requests should
contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the
number of participants, and whether any participant is a foreign
national; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed. Oral presentations
at the hearing will be limited to issues raised in the briefs. If a
request for a hearing is made, Commerce will inform parties of the
scheduled date for the hearing.\20\
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\20\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and CBP shall assess,
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in
accordance with the final results of this review.
If Ckaari or Velvin's weighted-average dumping margins are not zero
or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in the final results of
this review, Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific assessment
rates on the basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping
calculated for each importer's examined sales to the total entered
value of those sales. Where we do not have entered values for all U.S.
sales to a particular importer, we will calculate an importer-specific,
per-unit assessment rate on the basis of the ratio of the total amount
of dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total
quantity of those sales.\21\ To determine whether an importer-specific,
per-unit assessment rate is de minimis, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.106(c)(2), we also will calculate an importer-specific ad valorem
ratio based on estimated entered values. If Ckaari's or Velvin's
weighted-average dumping margins are zero or de minimis or where an
importer-specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we
will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties.\22\
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\21\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\22\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2); see also Antidumping Proceeding:
Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment
Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR
8101, 8103 (February 14, 2012).
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In accordance with Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice,
for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Ckaari or
Velvin for which they did not know that the merchandise was destined
for the United States, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate those
entries at the all-others rate calculated in the less-than-fair-value
(LTFV) investigation if there is no rate for the intermediate
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\23\
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\23\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
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For the companies listed in Appendix II which were not selected for
individual review, we will assign an assessment rate based on the
review-specific rate, calculated as noted in the ``Rate for Non-
Individually Examined Companies'' section, above. The final results of
this review shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties
on entries of merchandise covered by the final results of this review
and for future deposits of estimated duties, where applicable.\24\
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For the companies listed in Appendix III for which the review is
being rescinded, Commerce will instruct CBP to assess antidumping
duties on all
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appropriate entries. Antidumping duties shall be assessed at rates
equal to the cash deposit rate for estimated antidumping duties
required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for
consumption, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce
intends to issue rescission instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days
after the date of publication of this notice 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
The following 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)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the companies
listed above will be that established in the final results of this
review, except if the rate is less than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de
minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the
cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously investigated or
reviewed companies not covered by this review, the cash deposit rate
will continue to be the company-specific cash deposit rate published
for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in which the
company participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this
review, or the LTFV investigation, but the manufacturer is, then the
cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent
segment for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will continue to
be 1.20 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV
investigation.\25\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
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Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) 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.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of review
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19
CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: October 2, 2026.
Scot Fullerton,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Operations.
Appendix I
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Affiliation and Single Entity Treatment
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Currency Conversion
VII. Recommendation
Appendix II
Review-Specific Rate Applicable to Companies Not Selected for
Individual Review
1. Adeera Packaging Pvt. Ltd
2. Archies Limited
3. Asha Creation
4. Canpac Trends Private Limited
5. Carrywell Packaging Pvt. Ltd.
6. Colorbox
7. JK Industries
8. Kuloday Plastomers Pvt. Ltd.
9. Laser Edge Graphics
10. Max Packaging
11. Pack Planet Pvt. Ltd.
12. Paras Webcoat Pvt. Ltd.
13. SGM Paper Products
14. Tejaswi Plastic Pvt. Ltd.
Appendix III
Companies With No Reviewable Entries
1. Amate Products Pvt. Ltd.
2. Dynaflex Private Limited
3. Harrshan Pro-Pack LLP
4. Poonam
5. Shriniwas Enterprises
6. True Tag International Private Limited
7. Vama Packaging
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