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Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape from Italy Investigation No Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape from Italy Investigation No. AA1921-167 (Third Review) Publication 4128 March 2010 U.S. International Trade Commission Washington, DC 20436 U.S. International Trade Commission COMMISSIONERS Shara L. Aranoff, Chairman Daniel R. Pearson, Vice Chairman Deanna Tanner Okun Charlotte R. Lane Irving A. Williamson Dean A. Pinkert Robert A. Rogowsky Director of Operations Staff assigned Edward Petronzio, Investigator Robert Randall, Industry Analyst Clark Workman, Economist Justin Jee, Accountant Steven Hudgens, Statistician Patrick Gallagher, Attorney Douglas Corkran, Supervisory Investigator Address all communications to Secretary to the Commission United States International Trade Commission Washington, DC 20436 U.S. International Trade Commission Washington, DC 20436 www.usitc.gov Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape from Italy Investigation No. AA1921-167 (Third Review) Publication 4128 March 2010 CONTENTS Page Determination .................................................................. 1 Views of the Commission ......................................................... 3 Dissenting views of Chairman Aranoff, Vice Chairman Pearson, and Commissioner Okun .. 25 Part I: Introduction and overview ................................................. I-1 Background .................................................................. I-1 The original investigation and subsequent five-year reviews............................ I-2 Summary data................................................................ I-4 Statutory criteria and organization of the report...................................... I-8 Statutory criteria ........................................................... I-8 Organization of the report.................................................... I-9 Commerce’s reviews........................................................... I-10 Administrative reviews ...................................................... I-10 Changed circumstances reviews ............................................... I-12 Scope inquiry reviews ....................................................... I-12 Results of five-year reviews .................................................. I-13 Distribution of continued dumping and subsidy offset act funds ......................... I-13 The subject merchandise........................................................ I-14 Commerce’s scope.......................................................... I-14 Tariff treatment ............................................................ I-15 The product .................................................................. I-15 Description and applications .................................................. I-15 Manufacturing process ...................................................... I-16 Domestic like product issues .................................................... I-17 U.S. market participants........................................................ I-18 U.S. producers............................................................. I-18 U.S. importers............................................................. I-21 U.S. purchasers ............................................................ I-21 Apparent U.S. consumption and market shares ...................................... I-21 Part II: Conditions of competition in the U.S. market ................................ II-1 Introduction .................................................................. II-1 Supply and demand considerations ................................................ II-2 Supply ................................................................... II-2 Supply of PSP tape from Italy to the U.S. market .................................. II-3 U.S. demand .............................................................. II-4 Substitutability issues .......................................................... II-5 Factors affecting purchasing decisions .......................................... II-6 Comparisons of domestic product and subject imports and nonsubject imports ........... II-7 Elasticity estimates............................................................ II-11 U.S. supply elasticity ....................................................... II-11 U.S. demand elasticity ...................................................... II-11 Substitution elasticity ....................................................... II-11 i Part III: Condition of the U.S. industry ............................................ III-1 Overview.................................................................... III-1 Background ............................................................... III-1 Changed experiences in operations ............................................. III-1 Anticipated changes in existing operations....................................... III-1 U.S. producers’ capacity, production, and capacity utilization .......................... III-2 Constraints on capacity...................................................... III-3 U.S. producers’ shipments ...................................................... III-4 U.S. producers’ inventories ..................................................... III-5 U.S. producers’ imports and purchases ............................................. III-6 U.S. producers’ employment, wages, and productivity ................................ III-7 Financial condition of U.S. producers ............................................. III-8 Background ............................................................... III-8 Operations on PSP tape ...................................................... III-8 Capital expenditures and research and development expenses ........................ III-12 Assets and return on investment ............................................... III-12 Part IV: U.S. imports and the foreign industry ...................................... IV-1 U.S. imports ................................................................. IV-1 Imports from subject and nonsubject countries .................................... IV-1 U.S. importers’ inventories...................................................... IV-3 The industry in Italy ........................................................... IV-3 PSP tape operations ......................................................... IV-5 Global market................................................................ IV-7 Demand.................................................................. IV-7 Supply ................................................................... IV-7 Prices.................................................................... IV-8 Part V: Pricing and related information ........................................... V-1 Factors affecting pricing........................................................ V-1 Raw material costs.......................................................... V-1 Exchange rates............................................................. V-2 U.S. inland transportation costs................................................ V-2 Pricing practices.............................................................. V-2 Price data ................................................................... V-4 Price trends ............................................................... V-5 Price comparisons .......................................................... V-6 Appendixes A. Federal Register notices and the Commission’s statement on adequacy .................. A-1 B. Hearing witnesses ........................................................... B-1 C. Summary data............................................................... C-1 D. Responses of U.S. producers, U.S. importers, foreign producers, and U.S. purchasers concerning the significance of the antidumping duty finding and the likely effects of revocation ....... D-1 Note.–Information that would reveal confidential operations of individual concerns may not be published and therefore has been deleted from this report. Such deletions are indicated by asterisks. ii UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION Investigation No. AA1921-167 (Third Review) PRESSURE SENSITIVE PLASTIC TAPE FROM ITALY DETERMINATION On the basis of the record1 developed in the subject five-year review, the United States International Trade Commission (Commission) determines, pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)), that revocation of the antidumping duty finding on pressure sensitive plastic tape from Italy would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the United States within a reasonably foreseeable time.2 BACKGROUND The Commission instituted this review on May 1, 2009 (74 F.R. 20340) and determined on August 4, 2009, that it would conduct a full review (74 F.R. 40845, August 13, 2009). Notice of the scheduling of the Commission’s review and of a public hearing to be held in connection therewith was given by posting copies of the notice in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, Washington, DC, and by publishing the notice in the Federal Register on August 26, 2009 (74 F.R. 43155). The hearing was held in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2010, and all persons who requested the opportunity were permitted to appear in person or by counsel. 1 The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR § 207.2(f)). 2 Chairman Shara L. Aranoff, Vice Chairman Daniel R. Pearson, and Commissioner Deanna Tanner Okun dissenting.
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