OTEXA Continues Monitoring of Five Product Categories along with the International Trade Administration to determine if the import data would support self-initiation of an antidumping duty.
OTEXA states that it is initially monitoring five sensitive product categories of imports from Vietnam – trousers, shirts, sweaters, underwear, and swimwear. This monitoring will occur at various levels, including the three-digit textile/apparel category level and the more product-specific 10-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) level.
According to OTEXA, the monitored products are not intended to be static. Products may be added or removed from monitoring, as appropriate, based on analysis and/or input received from outreach efforts. For each of the listed categories in the five product groups, as well as the tariff numbers listed for each category, OTEXA provides the 2007 import data through November by:
- quantity in dozens,
- value, and
- unit value.
The monitored product categories* are as follows:
Trousers
347, 348, 447, 448, 647, 648, 847
Shirts
338, 339, 340, 341, 438, 440, 638, 639, 640, 641, 838, 840
Sweaters
345, 445, 446, 645, 646, 845, 846
Swimwear
359S, 659S
Underwear
352, 652, 852
*Note that not every category has data available every month. The web link to the “Monitored Import Data” for November 2007 can be found at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/download/vietnam-textile-monitoring/vtm-index.html