Fully upholstered beds may escape duties
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, December 31, 2006
High Point — The U.S. Department of Commerce may exclude fully upholstered beds from import duties collected on wood bedroom furniture made in China.
The change would affect beds that are upholstered with genuine or synthetic leather or natural or synthetic fabric on the headboard, footboard and side rails.
To be considered for exclusion, the feet of the bed would have to be the only exposed part of these products that could be made from wood. The wood feet could not be more than nine inches in height from the floor.
The DOC is considering the matter at the request of petitioners which are part of the American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade. That group filed the original petition that sought duties on wood bedroom furniture made in China.
The agency is expediting the process because the petitioners no longer want to place duties on fully upholstered beds.
It will accept written comments on the matter for 14 days after the initial publication of the notice, which appeared in the Federal Register on Dec. 20. Rebuttals to the comments on this matter must be received no later than 21 days following the Dec. 20 publication.
The DOC likely will issue a final ruling no later than the end of July.
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