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The U.S. government is prepared to Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan imported plastic bags levy of up to 96% of the final tax.

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce to make the decision, in addition to Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan imports all the plastic bags levy a general tax, will be on 18 Vietnamese companies, two Indonesian companies and two Taiwan companies to pay a special tax with a punitive nature .

Among them, the tax rate applicable to Vietnamese enterprises to 69-85%, Taiwan 36% -96% business, 52-76% of Vietnamese enterprises.

U.S. bag makers applauding this decision, saying the move will effectively curb what they called violations of U.S. trade law and WTO rules “not a fair price,” plastic bags dumped imports in the United States.

Representative in the United States, South Carolina Hartsville of Hilex PolyCo.LL CinHartsville companies and is located in Houston Superbag Corp. The company to institute legal proceedings over the United States attorney JoeDorn plastic bag manufacturers, said in a statement: “The revenue measures help to restore fair competition in the U.S. market, then our business remain in the United States, factories and employees. ”

Vietnamese media quoted a government official as saying the Road, the U.S. ruling as unfair and U.S. government officials in Vietnam have to submit evidence to prove that Vietnamese enterprises in the export is not violation of WTO provisions.

Made at the end of March the U.S. government’s latest decision in the two companies announced the dumping of these profits and specific amount of subsidies. United States International Trade Commission is expected to make a final ruling on April 14.

The United States also said that Vietnam imported plastic bags subsidy ranges from 0.44% -52.56%. From the Washington law firm King & Spaulding Dorn said that this is the first time the U.S. government imposed countervailing duties on Vietnamese enterprises / countervailing duties.

According to U.S. government data showed ,2006-2008, the Vietnam’s plastic bags the largest growth rate of imports, from 17.4 million U.S. dollars in 2006 to 79.4 million U.S. dollars in 2008.
The same period, imports from Taiwan plastic 17.6 million U.S. dollars to 51.2 million U.S. dollars, Indonesia imports plastic bags to 23.5 million U.S. dollars from 37.7 million U.S. dollars.

If the United States International Trade Commission’s final ruling on April 14 to maintain the preliminary ruling, importers will over the next three countries to pay the import of plastic bags, cash bond, while imports of plastic bags in Vietnam needs to pay countervailing duty margin .