Canada CITT Final Injury Finding — Thermoformed Molded Fibre Tableware from China (NQ-2025-008)

Mechanism

The CBSA initiated parallel dumping and subsidizing investigations (TMFT 2025 IN) on 16 October 2025 following a written complaint from CKF Inc. (Hantsport, Nova Scotia), a Canadian manufacturer of molded-fibre (pulp-based) tableware, alleging injurious dumped and subsidized imports of thermoformed molded fibre tableware — disposable plates, bowls, trays and similar articles molded from wood pulp or other cellulose fibre — originating in or exported from China.

Timeline:

• 16 October 2025 — CBSA launches dumping and subsidy investigations; CITT

initiates preliminary injury inquiry.

• 12 December 2025 — CITT determines there is a reasonable indication that

dumped/subsidized Chinese imports have caused injury or are threatening injury to the domestic industry.

• 27 February 2026 — CBSA preliminary determination: provisional combined

(AD + CVD) duty rates by exporter ranging from 25.2% (Guangxi Ecolink) to 53.7% (all other exporters).

• 2 March 2026 — CITT initiates the final injury inquiry (NQ-2025-008).
• 28 May 2026 — CBSA final determination: dumping margins of 81.7%–332.4% and

subsidy amounts of 0.5%–18.9% across named exporters and the "all other exporters" residual category (Shaoneng Luzhou (XinFeng)'s subsidy margin was found insignificant and its CVD investigation terminated).

• 26 June 2026 — CITT final injury finding (NQ-2025-008): dumping and

subsidizing of Chinese thermoformed molded fibre tableware has caused material injury to the domestic industry; CBSA now collects both anti-dumping and countervailing duties on qualifying imports.

Downstream implications

• Named Chinese exporters (Guangdong Shaoneng Group Luzhou, Guangxi Ecolink,

Guangxi Huabao Fiber, Shaoneng Group Guangdong Luzhou Eco, Shaoneng Luzhou (XinFeng), Zhejiang Zhongxin) face final combined AD+CVD exposure from roughly 82% up to 121%+ (dumping) plus up to ~19% (subsidy) depending on company — materially raising landed cost for continued access to the Canadian market.

• Non-cooperating "all other exporters" face the steepest combined exposure

(332.4% AD + 18.9% CVD), a near-prohibitive rate that functionally excludes unenrolled Chinese suppliers from the Canadian disposable-tableware market.

• Peer context: third Canadian SIMA/CITT trade-remedy case on the register

targeting China-origin manufactured goods in the 2025-26 cycle, alongside the truck-bodies finding (2026-07-03-canada-citt-truck-bodies-china-antidumping-final) and the OCTG5 finding (2026-04-21-canada-citt-octg5-antidumping-final) — underscoring an active CITT caseload against Chinese exporters spanning transport equipment, energy tubular goods, and now consumer disposables/ forestry-pulp products.

• A parallel US antidumping case on thermoformed molded fiber products from

China (and Vietnam) reached a final affirmative Sales-at-Less-Than-Fair-Value determination in September 2025 (Federal Register, 2025-09-30), indicating coordinated North American trade-remedy pressure on the same Chinese product category.

Open questions

• Whether any of the enrolled Chinese exporters (particularly Shaoneng Luzhou

(XinFeng), whose CVD investigation was terminated on insignificance grounds) pursue judicial review at the Federal Court of Appeal.

• Standard five-year SIMA duty cycle applies; first expiry review would be due

around 2031 absent an earlier scope or circumvention challenge.

• Whether Chinese exporters redirect molded-fibre tableware volumes through

third-country processing to avoid the Canadian duties, mirroring transshipment patterns seen in other CITT/CBSA cases.