Chinese Mfrs. Committee for Free Trade hosting two meetings at H.P. premarket
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, September 15, 2003
High Point — Lawyers for the Chinese Manufacturers Committee for Free Trade will host two invitation-only meetings, one for retailers and one for importers, at premarket here this week.
Attorneys with the Washington law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering will outline the case arising from a petition that a U.S. group, the American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade, plans to file, claiming that Chinese manufacturers are dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. market.
Both events take place Tuesday at the Greensboro-High Point Airport Marriott. Retailers will meet at 3 p.m. and importers at 5:30 p.m.
Another meeting previously scheduled for the same day, by the Coalition to Oppose Duties on Chinese Wood Bedroom Furniture, has been "merged" with the Wilmer, Cutler gathering, said Michael Waggoner, founder of importer American Tradition and organizer of the coalition event.
That meeting had been set for 2 p.m. at the High Point Radisson.
Robert Novick, an attorney with Wilmer, Cutler, said he expects at least a couple of hundred people to attend the meetings.
"We're going to get people briefed and up to speed on what a case like this is about, what they can expect, and what role they'll play," he said.
