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Initiation and Preliminary Results of AD Duty
Changed Circumstances Review
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(Preliminary Intent to Revoke AD Duty Order in
Part)
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China
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Wooden
Bedroom Furniture
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A-570-890
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The International Trade
Administration (ITA) has initiated and issued the preliminary results of its
antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of wooden bedroom furniture
from China.
The ITA states that it initiated
this changed circumstances review in response to a request from the American
Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade and its individual members
(the AFMC). The AFMC requested that the ITA revoke the AD duty order on wooden
bedroom furniture from China with respect to completely upholstered beds that
have exposed wooden feet of no more than nine inches in height from the floor.
ITA Intends to Revoke AD Duty
Order for Certain Upholstered Beds, Expedited Action is Warranted
The ITA states that based on the
expression of no interest by the AFMC and absent any objection by any other
domestic interested parties, it has preliminarily determined that substantially
all of the domestic producers of the like product have no interest in the
continued application of the AD order on wooden bedroom furniture to the
merchandise that is subject to this request.
Therefore, the ITA intends to
revoke, in part, the AD duty order as it relates to imports of: beds that are
completely upholstered, i.e., containing filling material and completely
covered in sewn genuine leather, synthetic leather, or natural or synthetic
decorative fabric. To be excluded, the entire bed (headboards, footboards, and
side rails) must be upholstered except for bed feet, which may be of wood,
metal, or any other material and which are no more than nine inches in height
from the floor.
The ITA also states that it has
determined that expedited action is warranted in this review. According to the
ITA, its decision to expedite this review stems from the domestic industry's
lack of interest in applying the AD duty order to the specific wooden bedroom
furniture (i.e., upholstered beds discussed above) covered by this request.
-final results are due no
later than 270 days after December 12, 2006
ITA Contact – Paul Stolz (202)
482-4474
ITA Notice (FR Pub 12/20/06)
available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-21765.pdf
Published in ITT on December 22, 2006 | [Ref: 06122240] |
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