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 completely upholstered beds that have exposed wooden feet of no more than nine inches in height from the floor.
ITA Intends to Revoke AD Duty Order for Certain Upholstered Beds, Expedited Action is Warranted
The ITA states that based on the expression of no interest by the AFMC 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 order on wooden bedroom furniture to the merchandise that is subject to this request.
Therefore, the ITA intends to revoke, in part, the AD duty order as it relates to imports of: beds that are completely upholstered, i.e., containing filling material and completely covered in sewn genuine leather, synthetic leather, or natural or synthetic decorative fabric. To be excluded, the entire bed (headboards, footboards, and side rails) must be upholstered except for bed feet, which may be of wood, metal, or any other material and which are no more than nine inches in height from the floor.
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., upholstered beds discussed above) covered by this request.
-final results are due no later than 270 days after December 12, 2006
ITA Contact - Paul Stolz (202) 482-4474
ITA Notice (FR Pub 12/20/06) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-21765.pdf