Certain Paper Shopping Bags From Malaysia: Preliminary Results, Preliminary Determination of No Shipments and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025

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Abstract

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Hexachase Packaging Sdn. Bhd. (Hexachase) made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025. Commerce also preliminarily determines that Sin Boon Beng Printing Sdn. Bhd. (SBBP), made no shipments during the POR. Finally, we are rescinding the review with respect to two 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 64138-64140]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-20549]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-557-825]


Certain Paper Shopping Bags From Malaysia: Preliminary Results, 
Preliminary Determination of No Shipments 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 Hexachase Packaging Sdn. Bhd. (Hexachase) made sales of 
subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of 
review (POR), January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025. Commerce also 
preliminarily determines that Sin Boon Beng Printing Sdn. Bhd. (SBBP), 
made no shipments during the POR. Finally, we are rescinding the review 
with respect to two companies. Interested parties are invited to 
comment on these preliminary results of review.

DATES: Applicable October 7, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Keith or Nathan Depew, 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) 482-0264 or (202) 482-5823.

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 certain paper shopping 
bags (shopping bags) from Malaysia.\1\ On January 7, 2026, Commerce 
selected Hexachase and SBBP as the mandatory respondents in this 
review.\2\
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 90 FR 41043 (August 22, 2025); see also 
Certain Paper Shopping Bags from Cambodia, Colombia, India, 
Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders, 89 FR 58334 
(July 18, 2024) (Order).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``2024-2025 Administrative Review of Certain 
Paper Bags from Malaysia: Respondent Selection,'' dated January 7, 
2026.
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    Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown 
on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative 
proceedings by 47 days.\3\ 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.\4\ On June 2, 2026, we extended the preliminary 
results of this review to September 30, 2026.\5\ On September 25, 2026, 
we extended the preliminary results of this review to no later than 
October 5, 2026.\6\
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    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the 
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated 
November 24, 2025.
    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated June 2, 
2026.
    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' 
dated September 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.\7\ 
A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
is attached as appendix I to this notice. 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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    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Certain Paper Shopping Bags from Malaysia; 2024-2025,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the Order is shopping bags. For a 
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.

Preliminary Determination of No Shipments

    On February 2, 2026, we received a submission from SBBP certifying 
that it did not have sales, shipments, or exports of subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POR.\8\ On August 10, 2026, 
we requested the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry data of 
subject merchandise imported into the United States during the POR and 
exported by SBBP.\9\ We placed the data received from CBP on the record 
and invited parties to comment.\10\ On September 9, 2026, Novolex 
Holdings, LLC (the petitioner) submitted comments regarding the CBP 
data and SBBP's certifications of no shipments of subject merchandise 
during the POR.\11\ On September 23, 2026, SBBP submitted rebuttal 
comments.\12\
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    \8\ See SBBP's Letter, ``No Shipments Letter for Sin Boon Beng 
Printing Sdn Bhd,'' dated February 2, 2026.
    \9\ See Memorandum, ``Entry Summary Documentation,'' dated 
September 3, 2026.
    \10\ Id.
    \11\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Comments Regarding Entry Summary 
Documentation,'' dated September 9, 2026.
    \12\ See SBBP's Letter, ``Rebuttal Comments Regarding Entry 
Summary Documentation,'' dated September 23, 2026.
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    Based on record information, we preliminarily determine that SBBP 
did not have knowledge that the subject merchandise was destined for 
the United States and, thus, SBBP is not considered the exporter of 
subject merchandise during the POR for the purposes of this review.\13\ 
Therefore, we preliminarily determine that SBBP made no shipments of 
subject merchandise during the POR. Consistent with Commerce's 
practice, we find that it is not appropriate to rescind the review with 
respect to SBBP, but rather to complete the review and issue 
appropriate instructions to CBP based on the final results of this 
review.\14\
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    \13\ See Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
    \14\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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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.\15\

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Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended 
entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate for the review 
period.\16\ Therefore, for an administrative review to be conducted, 
there must be a reviewable, suspended entry that Commerce can instruct 
CBP to liquidate at the AD assessment rate calculated for the POR.\17\ 
Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind the 
instant review regarding the companies listed in Appendix II because 
there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise from 
these companies during the POR and invited interested parties to 
comment.\18\ 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 II, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.213(d)(3).
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    \15\ 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).
    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \17\ 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'').
    \18\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In 
Part,'' dated August 20, 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 is 
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.

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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Hexachase Packaging Sdn. Bhd...............................        2.16
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Disclosure

    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).

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.\19\ 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.\20\ 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.\21\ 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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    \19\ See 19 CFR 351.309.
    \20\ 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).
    \21\ 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 executive summary for each issue raised in their 
briefs.\22\ 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).\23\
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    \22\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \23\ 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, 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.\24\
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    \24\ 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 U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of 
this review.
    If Hexachase's weighted-average dumping margin is 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.\25\ 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 Hexachase's weighted-
average dumping margin is 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.\26\
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    \25\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \26\ 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 Hexachase 
for which it 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.\27\
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    \27\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    For the companies listed in Appendix II for which the review is 
being rescinded, Commerce will instruct CBP to assess antidumping 
duties on all 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.
    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP regarding 
Hexachase 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

    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 company 
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 3.18 percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
investigation.\28\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \28\ See Order.
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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. Preliminary Determination of No Shipments
V. Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
VI. Discussion of the Methodology
VII. Currency Conversion
VIII. Recommendation

Appendix II

Companies Rescinded for Review

1. UPS SCS (Malaysia) Services Sdn Bhd.
2. Qlopac Sdn Bhd.

[FR Doc. 2026-20549 Filed 10-6-26; 8:45 am]
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