AD: China Wooden Bedroom Furniture
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated and issued the preliminary results of its antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of wooden bedroom furniture from China.
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The ITA states that it initiated this changed circumstances review in response to a request from the American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade and its individual members (the AFMC). The AFMC requested that the ITA revoke the AD duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China with respect to cheval style mirrored jewelry cabinets.
ITA Intends to Revoke AD Duty Order for a Certain Jewelry Cabinets, Expedited Action is Warranted
The ITA states that based on the petitioners' expression of no interest and absent any objection by any other domestic interested parties, it has preliminarily determined that substantially all of the domestic producers of the like product have no interest in the continued application of the AD duty order on wooden bedroom furniture as it applies to the merchandise subject to this request. Therefore, the ITA intends to revoke, in part, the AD duty order as it relates to imports of the cheval style mirrored jewelry cabinets from China as described below.
The ITA states that the product subject to this changed circumstances review meets the following description: an integrated piece consisting of a cheval mirror, i.e., a framed tiltable mirror with a height in excess of 50 inches, mounted on a floor-standing, hinged base, the cheval mirror serving as a door to a cabinet back that is integral to the structure of the mirror and which constitutes a jewelry cabinet lined with fabric, having necklace and bracelet hooks, mountings for rings and shelves, with or without a working lock and key to secure the contents of the jewelry cabinet back to the cheval mirror, and no drawers anywhere on the integrated piece. The fully assembled piece must be at least 50 inches in height, 14.5 inches in width, and 3 inches in depth.
The ITA also states that it has determined that expedited action is warranted in this review. According to the ITA, its decision to expedite this review stems from the domestic industry's lack of interest in applying the AD duty order to the specific wooden bedroom furniture (i.e., cheval style mirrored jewelry cabinets) covered by this request.
-final results are due no later than 270 days after November 6, 2006
ITA Contact - Eugene Degnan (202) 482-0414
ITA Notice (FR Pub 11/14/06) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-19185.pdf