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China Innerspring Units: Commerce Preliminarily Finds Circumvention by Malaysian Company

The Commerce Department will suspend liquidation and require cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties on innerspring units exported from Malaysia by Goldon Bedding Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd., it said in the preliminary results of an anti-circumvention inquiry on uncovered innerspring units…

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from China (A-570-928). According to Commerce, the innerspring units are manufactured by Goldon in Malaysia from Chinese-origin components, circumventing duties in place for China. Commerce said it is “unable to distinguish” between Goldon innerspring units that have Chinese-origin components, and those that do not, so it will direct CBP to suspend liquidation of all entries of innerspring units from Malaysia produced by Goldon, effective for entries on or after Dec. 22, 2014. Goldon did not participate in the proceeding. The final results are currently due Dec. 2.