China Uncovered Innerspring Units: Initiation of AD Anti-Circumvention Inquiry
The International Trade Administration is initiating an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether Malayisan company Reztec Industries Sdn Bhd’s uncovered innerspring units are circumventing the antidumping duty order on uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928).
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Petitioner Alleges that Minor Further Assembly Constitutes Circumvention
Leggett & Platt Inc., the petitioner, alleges that Reztec imports innerspring unit components from China to Malaysia, further assembles these components into uncovered innerspring units, and exports the assembled innerspring units to the U.S. in the form of subject merchandise. The petitioner argues that Reztec’s operations constitute minor further assembly in a third country (i.e., Malaysia).
The ITA said there is sufficient basis to initiate an AD anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether Reztec’s operations constitute minor further assembly in a third country so insignificant as to render it subject to the AD order. If the ITA issues a preliminary affirmative determination, it will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation and require a cash deposit of estimated duties, at the applicable rate, for each unliquidated entry of the merchandise at issue, entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after the date of initiation of the inquiry, i.e. May 23, 2012.
(Final determination due within 300 days of May 23, 2012. See notice for additional details, including the scope of the orders, the petitioners' arguments and submissions, etc.)
ITA contact -- Susan Pulongbarit (202) 482-4031
(FR Pub 05/23/12, A--570--928)