NRF Welcomes DOC Vietnam Apparel Decision

November 1, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on November 2007 Vietnam, an important source country for furniture, won’t get investigated for dumping goods in another industry that’s seen manufacturing declines—apparel.

The National Retail Federation welcomed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s decision not to initiate its own anti-dumping investigation against apparel from Vietnam.

DOC had been monitoring data on a variety of apparel products from Vietnam since the beginning of the year, but announced Oct. 26 that a fair and objective analysis of the first six months of information found insufficient evidence of dumping in the U.S. market to warrant a full investigation.

“The import monitoring program targeting apparel imports from Vietnam for possible antidumping investigations is an ill-conceived fishing expedition created entirely as a result of political pressure from a U.S. textile industry that still clings to unnecessary protection from imports,” said Erik Autor, NRF vice president and international trade counsel in a release Tuesday. “There has never been any evidence these imports are harming U.S. production and workers.”