{"id":4657,"date":"2014-08-20T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T02:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/08\/20\/from-then-to-now-an-antidumping-timeline\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T02:51:34","slug":"from-then-to-now-an-antidumping-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/from-then-to-now-an-antidumping-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"From then to now: An antidumping timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nHIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how events have unfolded in the long-running case that led to U.S. antidumping duties on imports of Chinese wood bedroom furniture.<\/p>\n<p>July 2003 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade announces it will seek an antidumping investigation into Chinese-made wood bedroom furniture, and later files a petition to that effect with the U.S. government.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><\/p>\n<p> December 2003 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The U.S. Department of Commerce agrees to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>June 2004 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The government releases the preliminary results of the investigation. This established preliminary duties on wood bedroom furniture imported from China.<\/p>\n<p>December 2004 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The government announces revised duties on these imports.<\/p>\n<p>January 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The U.S. Department of Commerce begins the first administrative review process of duty rates on Chinese bedroom furniture exports. The review covers shipments between June 24, 2004 and Dec. 31, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>February 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Petitioners submit a list of 56 companies to the DOC that it wants reviewed. Including requests from other sources, the DOC receives more than 100 requests for individual reviews.<\/p>\n<p>March 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The DOC releases a list of 107 factories that were chosen for review and begins the process.<\/p>\n<p>June-July 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The DOC identifies five Chinese case goods companies as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mandatory respondents\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the first review. The government considers the five to be the largest exporters of Chinese wood bedroom furniture. These five companies will determine the extent to which retroactive duties will or will not be paid by factories starting in the summer of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>November 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The DOC permanently eliminates Lacquer Craft duties, which originally were 2.66%. The parent company of Universal and Legacy Classic was one of the six mandatory respondents in the original antidumping investigation. This raises the Section A rate from 6.65% to 7.24% for 117 other companies.<\/p>\n<p>December 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c U.S. Customs and Border Protection distributes $21.8 million in duties collected to the petitioners. It holds another $9.95 million due to pending litigation by Furniture Brands International and Standard Furniture, which were not petitioners but are seeking shares of the duties.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>February 2014 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The DOC announces preliminary duties resulting from its first administrative review, covering the 2004 and 2012 periods.<\/p>\n<p>March 2014 &#8212; The DOC initiates the second review, covering shipments made in 2013. It names 196 companies it will review.<\/p>\n<p>August 2014 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Final results of the first administrative review are released, giving the final word on the 2004-2012 duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, HIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how events have unfolded in the long-running case that led to U.S. antidumping duties on imports of Chinese wood bedroom furniture. July 2003 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade announces it will seek an antidumping investigation into Chinese-made wood bedroom furniture, and later files a petition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}