Four Chinese bedroom furniture producers subject to review

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce is taking more time to review four Chinese wood bedroom furniture manufacturers before assigning them any antidumping duty rates.

All are classified as “new shippers,” meaning they were not sending wood bedroom furniture to the United States in the period the government studied in the original antidumping review, April through September 2003.

The DOC had planned to issue preliminary results for the companies — Shenyang Kunyu Wood Industry Co. Ltd., Dongguan Landmark Furniture Products Ltd., Meikangchi (Nantong) Furniture Co. Ltd. and WBE Inds. (Hui-Yang) Co. Ltd. — by Feb. 26.

But according to a notice in the Federal Register, the DOC may now take an additional 120 days, until June 26. Each company will be assigned its own duty rate.

The DOC said the review is complex, “particularly with respect to the valuation of the many factors associated with wooden bedroom furniture production.”

Meanwhile, the department also issued a formal notice that it has begun its review of antidumping duty rates of other Chinese wood bedroom furniture factories, and intends to issue final results by Jan. 31, 2014.