DOC to Take More Time for Administrative Review

June 11, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Bedroom on June 2007 The U.S. Department of Commerce has extended the ruling deadline for its first administrative review of its anti-dumping order against wooden bedroom furniture from China to August 8, 2007. The decision, effective Tuesday, also applies to DOC’s new shipper reviews of Chinese manufacturers who began shipping the category to the U.S. market after the time frame of DOC’s original investigation.

On March 7, 2006, DOC had initiated its administrative review of the original order and new shipper reviews covering June 24, 2004-Dec. 31, 2005; and last August aligned the deadlines and time limits of both those investigations. On Feb. 9 this year, the department issued preliminary rulings in both cases, setting a deadline 120 later, June 9, for final results.

By law, the DOC can extend the investigation’s time frame to 180 days from the date of preliminary results in complex cases such as wood bedroom furniture from China. The department did so, resulting in the new August 8 deadline.

According to an announcement in Tuesday’s Federal Register notice, “Completion of the final results of the administrative review within the 120-day period is not practicable because the (DOC) conducted verification in the administrative review after publication of the preliminary results, and, therefore, needs additional time to complete post-preliminary results verification reports, invite and analyze comments by interested parties on the preliminary results and verification reports, and analyze information gathered at verification.”