China Hardwood Plywood: Commerce Set to Create New Exemption for Door Stiles and Rails
The Commerce Department is set to exempt certain door stiles and rails from the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hardwood plywood from China (A-570-051/C-570-052), but will not apply the revocation retroactively to AD/CV duties collected during its initial investigations, it said in a notice published April 6 announcing the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review.
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The exemption would cover door stiles and rails made of laminated veneer lumber that meet certain dimensional requirements. New language would be added to the scope as follows: “Also excluded are laminated veneer lumber door stiles and rails that have a width not to exceed 50 millimeters, a thickness not to exceed 50 millimeters, and a length of less than 2,450 millimeters.”
The Coalition for Fair Trade in Hardwood Plywood, which filed the original petition on AD/CV duties on hardwood plywood, requested the exemption. It says the door stiles and rails are better covered by imminent AD/CVD orders on wood mouldings and millwork (see 2101270050).
Despite a request from the coalition to make the revocation retroactive to the dates that suspension of liquidation took effect under the preliminary determinations issued during the original investigation, Commerce says it will have completed administrative reviews and liquidated some entries by the time it issues the final results of this changed circumstances review, so it will apply the revocation beginning from the first date not covered by those reviews: Jan. 1, 2020.