The International Trade Administration published the results of the second administrative review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China in the Federal Register last month.
The first “mandatory respondent,” Dalien Dajen Wood Co., received a weighted-average dumping margin of 0 percent. While that result was unchanged from the review’s preliminary results released in January, the second mandatory respondent, Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo Wood Industry Co., received a margin of 13.74 percent.
That same margin was also given to 50 other companies subject to this review and accorded “separate rate applicant” status. Thirty-two other companies that were reviewed but did not apply for or were not granted “separate rate applicant” status received a “PRC-wide entity” margin of 58.84 percent.
This administrative review concerns activity between Dec. 1, 2012 and Nov. 30, 2013.
There have been a number of antidumping administrative reviews in the past five years, all of which are rooted in the Department of Commerce’s determination published in 2011 that Chinese producers and exporters were dumping multilayered wood flooring in the United States at less than fair value.
The DOC’s determination was the result of an investigation petitioned for by the Coalition for American Hardwood Parity, a lobbying group that favors setting antidumping duties on Chinese wood flooring producers and exporters that dump products in the U.S. at unfair margins.
Most recently, three Chinese companies had their dumping margins lowered to zero as part of an order published in 2014.
