China Wooden Bedroom Furniture: Commerce Considering Exemption for Bed Bases
The Commerce Department will consider making an exemption for certain bed bases from antidumping duties on wooden bedroom furniture on China (A-570-890), it said in a notice beginning a changed circumstances review (here). Olollo, a U.S. importer, requested the partial revocation, and the U.S. furniture manufacturers that originally requested the antidumping duty order have said they agree that bed bases should be exempt.
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Under the proposed exemption, the following product would not be subject to antidumping duties: bed bases consisting of (1) a wooden box frame, (2) three wooden cross beams and one perpendicular center wooden support beam, and (3) wooden slats over the beams. These bed bases are constructed without inner springs and/or coils and do not include a headboard, footboard, side rails, or mattress.
Commerce will now consider the issue of whether domestic industry supports the partial revocation. Although some domestic manufacturers have indicated their consent, they did not purport to represent “substantially all” domestic manufacturers, as is required by law to create the exemption. The final results of this review are due by Feb. 26, 2016.
(Federal Register 06/01/15)