China Innerspring Units: Commerce Preliminarily Finds Reztec's Malaysian Exports are Circumventing AD Order
Innerspring units produced by Reztec in Malaysia from Chinese-origin components are circumventing the antidumping duty order on uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928), and should be subject to antidumping duties, said the Commerce Department in the preliminary results of an anticircumvention inquiry. The innerspring unit parts from China only undergo minor processing in Malaysia, and do not change the goods’ origin for AD duty purposes, Commerce said.
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Because Reztec doesn’t distinguish between innerspring units made from Chinese-origin and non-Chinese-origin parts, Commerce is directing CBP to suspend liquidation for all entries of innerspring units produced by Reztec and imported from Malaysia. AD duty cash deposits will be required at the rate applicable to the exporter, it said.