Twelve Percent of Your PET Film Line Is Under Order

If you buy polyester film on contract, two numbers landed on your product this week.

On Wednesday Commerce published the preliminary results of the countervailing duty review of PET film from India: 3.98 percent on SRF Limited. This morning the dumping side followed at 0.61 percent on the same company.

Both notices are the twenty-fourth year of an order that published on July 1, 2002. In March, Commerce and the ITC renewed it, along with the orders on Taiwan, China and the UAE, for five more years.

"After twenty-four years, what does this order set actually reach?"

An eighth of the line.

The review that emptied out

Commerce initiated the dumping review on August 22, 2025 against eight Indian producers: Cosmo First, Chiripal Poly Films, Ester Industries, Garware, JPFL Films, Polyplex Corporation, SRF and Vacmet. Polyplex Corp and SRF were picked as mandatory respondents.

Then on November 20, 2025, the requests came back out. The petitioners withdrew Ester, Garware, Polyplex Corp, JPFL and Vacmet; Chiripal withdrew itself; Polyplex USA withdrew its own.

In Commerce's words, "the company that remains subject to the instant review is SRF."

The countervailing review rescinded nine companies the same way.

So a review opened against eight producers closed on one, and the one came back at six tenths of a percent. Neither rate is money at the border yet: deposits move when the final results publish, which both notices put within 120 days.

Worth noting on the calendar, since it will show up in every Commerce deadline you track this year: these proceedings were tolled 47 days for the shutdown and another 21 days for the ACCESS filing backlog behind it.