Washington, DC – The American Pizza Boxes Manufacturers Coalition and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union filed petitions today alleging that unfairly traded imports of corrugated pizza boxes from China, Malaysia, and Turkey are injuring, and threaten to further injure, the U.S. pizza box industry.
The petitions demonstrate that pizza box producers in each of the subject countries sell pizza boxes in the United States at less than fair value. These pizza boxes are being dumped in the United States at rates ranging from 96.62% to 568.50% for China, 110.73% for Malaysia, and 120.65% to 210.37% for Turkey. These rates of dumping reflect the estimated amount of unfair pricing used by the foreign producers to gain market share in the United States. The petitions further demonstrate that producers in Turkey unfairly benefit from numerous countervailable subsidies provided by the Turkish government, such as tax breaks and discounted raw materials and inputs, which provide artificial advantages to the Turkish industry. There is also evidence that the Russian government has provided cross-border subsidies that benefit pizza box producers in Turkey. Together, these unfair advantages have allowed Chinese, Malaysian, and Turkish producers to gain significant market share at the expense of the U.S. industry and its workers.
The filing was made concurrently with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) in response to the surge in volumes of unfairly traded imports from China, Malaysia, and Turkey since 2023. From 2023 to 2025, subject imports increased by 130%, and they have increased even further thus far in 2026. By using highly dumped and subsidized prices, Chinese, Malaysian, and Turkish producers have gained a significant and increasing share of the U.S. market at the direct expense of the American industry. Due to the increasing volumes of dumped and subsidized imports, U.S. producers have suffered significant declines in production, shipments, profits, and employment.
“Trade relief is necessary to remedy the injurious effects unfairly traded imports have had on the U.S. pizza box industry,” commented Robert E. DeFrancesco, partner in Wiley’s International Trade Practice and counsel to the petitioners, emphasizing that “the application of antidumping and countervailing duties will be vital to supporting this quintessential American industry and its thousands of workers.”