The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently imposed antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duties on imports of plastic decorative ribbon from China.
The ITC and the U.S. Department of Commerce conducted investigations into the matter in response to petitions filed by Berwick Offray LLC, a leading U.S. manufacturer of plastic decorative ribbon products based in Berwick, Penn.
In a unanimous 5-0 vote, the ITC found that U.S. producers of plastic decorative ribbon have been materially injured by unfairly traded imports of plastic decorative ribbon from China. The trade remedies will be imposed at combined AD and CV duty rates ranging from 70.36 percent to 386.19 percent.
“We are excited by the outcome of these trade remedy cases,” said Christopher J. Munyan, president and CEO of CSS Industries, Inc., the parent company of Berwick Offray LLC. “We believe that vigorous enforcement of U.S. trade laws is essential to enabling U.S. companies like ours to compete on a level playing field when confronted with competition from dumped and unfairly subsidized imports from China. We are proud of our U.S. workforce and our Pennsylvania manufacturing facilities, which for decades have produced and reliably delivered to our customers high quality, on-trend, and innovative plastic decorative ribbon products.”