Chinese Wood Flooring Duties Must Be Revised Again, Court Says

Revised duties on certain shipments of wood flooring from China must be reconsidered, and possibly further lowered, because the Commerce Department used an improper method to calculate the flooring’s export price, the U.S. Court of International Trade said.

The U.S. maintains antidumping duties on multilayered wood flooring from China. Commerce conducted a periodic duty review covering such imports that entered the U.S. between December 2012 and November 2013. It originally calculated a 13.74% dumping margin for Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. This rate also applied to a host of other producers and exporters that demonstrated their independence from ...