AD: China Folding Metal Tables and Chairs
The International Trade Administration has issued an affirmative preliminary determination that imports of folding metal tables with legs connected by cross-bars, so that the legs fold in sets, are circumventing the antidumping duty order on folding metal tables and chairs (FMTCs) from China.
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(This anticircumvention inquiry was initiated on June 1, 2006 to consider whether adding a cross-brace to folding metal tables from China to join two legs into pairs can be considered minor alterations to merchandise which circumvents the subject AD duty order.)
Suspension of Liquidation/AD Cash Deposit Required for Subject FMTCs
For folding metal tables meeting the description of the folding metal tables described in the scope of the subject AD duty order except that they have cross-bars connecting the legs, so that the legs fold in sets, the ITA is directing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation of merchandise with at time of entry on or after June 1, 2006 (the date of initiation of this anticircumvention inquiry).
The ITA will also instruct CBP to require a cash deposit of estimated duties at the applicable rates for each unliquidated entry of the product with a time of entry on or after June 1, 2006.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 12/26/07 news, 07122640, for BP summary of the final results of the most recent administrative review and AD cash deposit rates for FMTCs from China.)
(See ITA preliminary determination notice for more information, including the scope of the AD duty order, etc.
See ITT's Online Archives or 09/02/08 news, 08090245, for BP summary of the ITA's most recent quarterly list of completed and pending anticircumvention inquiries, etc., including the subject inquiry on FMTCs from China.)
ITA contact - Charles Riggle (202) 482-0650
ITA notice (dated 10/27/08) available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-25558.pdf