Vietnam is facing another dumping suit in the US, this time for its plastic shopping bags.
On March 31, King & Spalding LLP representing Hilex Poly Co. LLC and Superbag Corporation of the US filed their petitions to the US Department of Commerce and the US International Trade Commission, targeting plastic shopping bags, coded HTS 3923.21.0085, imported from Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan.
According to the DOC’s statistics, the US imported around 79 million USD worth of plastic shopping bags from Vietnam in 2008.
Earlier, in June, 2003, the two US companies also sued China, Malaysia and Thailand for dumping their plastic shopping bags in the country. As a result, the US imposed dumping tariff ranging from 0.20-77.33 percent on China’s bags, 0.91-101.74 percent tax rate on Malaysia’s and 0.62-122.88 percent on PE bags from Thailand./.