Petition timeline
Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, October 4, 2010
July 2003: A group of U.S. furniture producers calling itself the American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade announces it will seek an antidumping investigation into Chinesemade wood bedroom furniture. It files a petition to that effect with the U.S. government. Later, a group called the Furniture Retailers of America forms to oppose such duties, which retailers and other importers would have to pay.
December 2003: The U.S. Department of Commerce agrees to launch an antidumping investigation.
January 4, 2005: U.S. Department of Commerce places final antidumping order into effect. Preliminary duties had been in place since June, 2004.
January 2006: The Department of Commerce begins the first administrative review process of duty rates on Chinese bedroom furniture imports, covering the period from June 24, 2004, to Dec. 31, 2005, and ultimately involving 107 Chinese factories.
June-July 2006: The DOC identifies six Chinese case goods companies as "mandatory respondents" in the first review. The government considers them to be the largest sources of Chinese wood bedroom furniture.
November 2006: The DOC eliminates Lacquer Craft's duties, which originally were 2.66%. The parent company of Universal and Legacy Classic was one of the six mandatory respondents in the original antidumping investigation. This raises the Section A rate from 6.65% to 7.24% for 117 other companies. Companies not on the A list may pay higher rates.
December 2006: U.S. Customs and Border Protection distributes to the petitioners $21.9 million in duties it has
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