Commerce Again Extends Deadline to Avoid AD/CVD on Vietnamese Plywood
The Commerce Department is again extending, this time until March 2, its deadline for certifications to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties on past entries of hardwood plywood from Vietnam, it said in a notice released Dec. 7. The agency also will allow 22 companies previously prohibited to participate in the certification process.
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The deadline initially had been set at Sept. 12 in Commerce’s preliminary determination that Vietnamese plywood made under five production scenarios are circumventing and should be subject to AD/CVD on hardwood plywood from China (see 2208080012). Commerce subsequently extended the deadline until Dec. 1 (see 2209140028).
Now, for Vietnamese plywood entered June 17, 2020, through Aug. 28, 2022, certifications that Vietnamese plywood was not made with Chinese inputs and should not be subject to AD/CVD are due 30 days after the deadline for Commerce’s final determination in the anti-circumvention inquiry. That’s currently March 2, though it could come later if the agency’s final determination is postponed.
Commerce also will now allow 22 companies that Commerce had precluded from participating in the certification process because they submitted unreliable information to file certifications, and avoid AD/CVD, for entries June 17, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021. Entries from these 22 companies on or after Jan. 1, 2022, are still ineligible, as are all entries from 14 companies that did not respond to Commerce’s requests for information.