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DOC names 196 companies for '06 review

By Heath E. Combs -- Furniture Today, March 11, 2007

Washington — The Department of Commerce has listed the 196 wood bedroom producing entities in China that will be reviewed in the antidumping investigation of 2006 shipments.

To see the names online, look for this story under the Headline News section at www.furnituretoday.com.

The Department of Commerce received requests in January from U.S. manufacturers that filed the original antidumping petition, regarding which Chinese companies should be reviewed.

Final results of the administrative review are scheduled to be issued no later than Jan. 31, 2008.

The department will determine which of the companies on the list will be the mandatory respondents — the handful of large exporters that will be subject to more extensive investigation.

Some of the companies will qualify for a separate rate, also called the Class A rate, rather than the China-wide rate, which currently is 216%. Commerce identified 123 companies that had qualified for a separate rate in previous years' reviews. To keep their status, they will have to certify that they are still independent of the Chinese government and that nothing has changed in the past year.

Separate rate certifications are due by March 21.

Sources close to the proceedings said while the list of shippers may appear long, a small number of the companies account for a large percentage of the imports.

Companies qualifying for separate rate status will receive a dumping margin based on the weighted average margin of the small group of mandatory respondents.

Companies up for review that do not file any paperwork will likely receive the China-wide rate.

The department also announced new shipper reviews on wooden bedroom furniture from China for Golden Well International, Ltd. and its supplier Zhangzhou XYM Furniture Product Co., Ltd. and for Mei Jia Ju Furniture Industrial Shenzhen Co., Ltd. Companies classified as new shippers were not sending wood bedroom furniture to the United States in the period the government studied in the original antidumping review, April through September 2003.

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