Chinese Multilayer Wood Flooring Duties Must Be Reexamined

The Commerce Department must reconsider the U.S. duty rate on certain imports of wood flooring from China in light of recent legal developments, a federal court said Wednesday.

The U.S. maintains antidumping duties on Chinese multilayered wood flooring. Commerce undertook a periodic duty review covering subject imports that entered the U.S. between May 2011 and November 2012.

The department initially calculated a dumping margin and corresponding duty rate of 5.92% for mandatory respondent Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Ltd. This rate was also applied to a number of “separate rate” respondents, companies that proved their independence from Chinese government control but weren’t ...