China Wood Flooring: Yuhua Flooring Sold Through A-Timber Exempt From AD Duties
Wood flooring produced and exported by Yuhua but sold through the company’s sales agent A-Timber falls under Yuhua’s exemption from antidumping duties on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970), the Commerce Department said in the final results of a changed circumstances review. Though CBP began suspending liquidation and collecting cash deposits on wood flooring Yuhua sold through A-Timber beginning in 2020, Commerce said it already considered A-Timber’s role when it granted Yuhua a zero percent AD duty rate in its 2011 AD investigation, and found that circumstances have not changed since.
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Commerce will instruct CBP that when Yuhua is the producer and exporter of MLWF sold through (i.e., invoiced by) A-Timber, Yuhua’s exclusion from the Order applies to entries of such merchandise. “The exclusion would not apply to MLWF produced and/or exported by a Chinese entity other than Yuhua and sold through A-Timber,” the agency said. Commerce also will instruct CBP to terminate any suspension of liquidation on MLWF produced and exported by Yuhua and sold through A-Timber, and retroactively apply this determination to all unliquidated entries of such merchandise.
See 2208080007) for the preliminary results of this changed circumstances review.