Colombian Exporter of Paper Bags Made Home Market Sales at Different Levels, Complaint Argues

A Colombian paper shopping bag exporter said in a complaint July 29 that the Commerce Department miscalculated the exporter’s dumping margin by failing to conduct a level of trade adjustment to its home market sales (Ditar v. U.S., CIT # 24-00130).

Ditar was the sole mandatory respondent in an antidumping duty investigation on paper shopping bags from Colombia, receiving an 11.06% dumping margin in the final affirmative determination, it said.

The department, it said, found that all of Ditar’s home market sales were made at the same level of trade. But during the administrative process, “a wide range of source documentation, mathematical metrics, and quantitative analyses established that Ditar performed different types and degrees of selling activities for its distributor and end user customers in Colombia,” the exporter argued.

On the other hand, Ditar only sold paper bags to distributors in the United States, it said.

This made Commerce’s determination unreasonable and unsupported by substantial evidence, the exporter said. As a result, it said, its dumping margin was inaccurate. It asked the trade court to remand the determination to Commerce so it can make a level of trade adjustment to Ditar’s home market prices.