WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Commerce announced this week that it is made a preliminary decision to rescind an annual review of the 2018 shipments of 86 Chinese wooden bedroom furniture producers.
The annual review determines whether the manufacturers the manufacturers will have any change or adjustment to their current antidumping duty rate for bedroom shipments to the U.S. market during the period of review, in this case 2018. By having their reviews rescinded by various interested parties, they can maintain their current duty rate. For a list of the companies, click here.
The DOC announced the preliminary review results on Oct. 10. In that announcement it said that interested parties withdrew the review requests for all but four companies that had no shipments during the period of review. These companies include: Eurosa (Kunshan) Co. Ltd. and Eurosa Furniture Co. (PTE) Ltd.; Shenyang Shining Dongxing Furniture Co. Ltd.; Sunforce Furniture (Hui-Yang) Co. Ltd., Sun Fung Wooden Factory, Sun Fung Co., Shin Feng Furniture Co. Ltd. and Stupendous International Co. Ltd.; and Yeh Brothers World Trade Inc.
Companies with no shipments for a given year are subject to the all-China duty rate of 216.01%.
The DOC said interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results and may submit case briefs and or written comments within 30 days of the Oct. 10 publication of the notice in the Federal Register. Rebuttals are due five days after the due date for case briefs. The final results of the annual review are expected within 120 days or four months after the Oct. 10 publication.
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