DOC Extends Deadline for New Shipper Review Results

February 28, 2006  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on March 2006 By Powell Slaughter

By Powell Slaughter

The U.S. Department of Commerce has extended the deadline for its preliminary ruling on so-called "new shippers" in its antidumping investigation of Chinese producers of wood bedroom furniture.

Last September, DOC began examining four Chinese manufacturers who had not been shipping subject merchandise to the U.S. market during the time from of the original investigation, April through September 2003.

DOC originally planned to issue preliminary results on Kunyu, Dongguan Landmark Furniture, Meikangchi and Hui-Yang no later than Feb. 26. In complex cases, however, the Department can extend that deadline another 120 days, giving DOC until June 26 for its initial results.

According to a notice in the Federal Register, DOC needs more time due to "significant and complicated issues surrounding the Department's normal value calculation for wooden bedroom furniture, particularly with respect to the valuation of the many factors of production associated with wooden bedroom furniture production."



DOC will use the extra time to analyze the manufacturers' responses to questionnaires, issue supplemental questionnaires and conduct appropriate verifications.

Each of the four companies in question will be judged individually in terms of setting any duty rates.