Executive Summary
Commerce published preliminary antidumping margins on October 9, 2026, for Cambodian paper shopping bags covering entries from January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025.
Nice Packaging, Brandart and TB Packaging received 20.08 percent; UUPak received 73.30 percent, based entirely on adverse facts available.
The rates are preliminary, not final. Assessment and new cash-deposit requirements will follow the final results, not this notice.
Interested parties have deadlines of 21 days after publication for case briefs, five days after the case-brief deadline for rebuttal briefs, and 30 days after publication for hearing requests.
The Cambodia paper bag AD review has preliminary margins of 20.08 and 73.30 percent, published October 9, 2026. Commerce’s preliminary results notice covers certain paper shopping bags from Cambodia and a review period of January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025. The rates are not final, and the notice does not start the new cash-deposit requirements.
Which Cambodian Paper Bags Are Covered?
The review covers paper shopping bags from Cambodia subject to the antidumping duty order. The notice does not reproduce the full product scope. Commerce’s Preliminary Decision Memorandum contains the complete scope description and governs whether particular merchandise is covered.
The review period is January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025. The preliminary results address four producers or exporters: Nice Packaging (Cambodia) Co., Ltd., UUPak Company Limited, Brandart S.p.A. and TB Packaging (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. The announced margins concern that review and period. They should not be treated as a general rate for every Cambodian paper bag or every company.
What Are the Preliminary Cambodian Bag Margins?
Commerce preliminarily assigned 20.08 percent to Nice Packaging, Brandart and TB Packaging, and 73.30 percent to UUPak. Commerce calculated the Nice Packaging margin and assigned that rate to the two companies not selected for individual examination, Brandart and TB Packaging. The notice states that UUPak’s rate is based entirely on adverse facts available, or AFA.
These are estimated weighted-average dumping margins, not final duty bills. Commerce will determine assessment rates under the final results, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection will assess duties on appropriate entries in line with those results. The final results can establish different rates. For the non-selected companies, Commerce says it will assign an assessment rate based on the review-specific rate.
The notice describes importer-specific assessment calculations if Nice Packaging’s margin remains above de minimis in the final results. It also provides for liquidation without antidumping duties in specified zero or de minimis circumstances. Those instructions depend on the final margin and, where relevant, the importer-specific assessment rate.
When Do Cambodian Bag Cash Deposits Change?
The new cash-deposit requirements begin only for subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after publication of the final results. The preliminary notice does not make the new preliminary margins effective as cash-deposit rates. Until that publication, importers should not use these preliminary rates as if they were final deposit instructions.
Under the notice, the final rate for each listed company will set its deposit rate unless the rate is below one-half of one percent, in which case the deposit rate will be zero. The notice also states the deposit treatment for companies outside this review: previously reviewed companies retain the rate from their most recently completed segment in which they participated; where an exporter is not covered but its manufacturer is, the manufacturer’s most recent segment rate applies. For other manufacturers or exporters, the stated all-others rate is 7.07 percent.
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after publication of the final results. If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time to request a statutory injunction expires, within 90 days of final-results publication.
What Must Parties File in the Cambodia Review?
Interested parties must use the Commerce filing deadlines and ACCESS submission requirements to comment on these preliminary results. Case briefs are due no later than 21 days after publication. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, are due no later than five days after the case-brief deadline. Both must include a table of contents listing issues and a table of authorities.
Commerce requests a public executive summary for each issue at the beginning of each brief, limited to 450 words excluding citations, with footnotes for relevant citations. Electronic filings must be received successfully in their entirety in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the applicable deadline.
A hearing request must be filed electronically through ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after publication. It must identify the requesting party and provide its address and telephone number, the number of participants and whether any is a foreign national, and the issues to be discussed. Any oral presentation will be limited to issues raised in the briefs.
What Are the Cambodia Review Deadlines?
- Review period: January 3, 2024, to June 30, 2025. Commerce’s preliminary results apply to this period.
- Publication: October 9, 2026. Commerce published the preliminary results notice.
- Disclosure: within five days of any public announcement, or within five days of publication if there is no public announcement. This is the disclosure period stated in the notice.
- Case briefs: within 21 days after publication. The notice sets this briefing deadline.
- Rebuttal briefs: within five days after the case-brief deadline. Rebuttals are limited to issues raised in case briefs.
- Hearing requests: within 30 days after publication. Requests must be filed by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline.
The notice gives these deadlines as periods after publication or another specified event. The calendar due dates depend on applying those periods to the applicable event date.
What Should Importers Do About the Preliminary Margins?
Confirm product scope. Compare the merchandise description and entry records with the complete scope in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum before applying the preliminary rates to shipments.
Identify the producer and exporter. Check whether covered entries involve Nice Packaging, UUPak, Brandart or TB Packaging. Keep the preliminary rates distinct from the company’s current deposit rate and from any final assessment rate.
Preserve review-period entry data. Organize entry, importer, producer, exporter and entered-value records for the January 3, 2024, through June 30, 2025, period. These records may matter to assessment calculations and liquidation.
Track final publication and reimbursement certificates. Do not apply the new deposit schedule before publication of final results. Before liquidation of relevant review-period entries, file the required certificate concerning reimbursement of antidumping duties; Commerce warns that failure could lead to a presumption of reimbursement and double duties.
What Remains Open in the Cambodia Bag Review?
The final margins, importer-specific assessments and resulting liquidation instructions remain unresolved because the October 9 notice announces preliminary results only. Commerce has invited comments and may address them in the final results. The new cash-deposit rates also depend on final publication.
The notice does not state when Commerce will publish final results. It does not resolve whether a particular bag is within scope without the complete scope description in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. Importers should confirm scope and track the final notice before treating any preliminary margin as a final liability or deposit rate.
Sources
- Certain Paper Shopping Bags From Cambodia: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025, U.S. Department of Commerce, Federal Register
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