China Wood Flooring: Commerce Finds Two-Layer Product Exempt from AD/CV Duties

The Commerce Department found yet another two-layer solid wood flooring product exempt from antidumping and countervailing duties on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-470-970/C-570-971), in the final results of a scope ruling issued May 13. Shenzhenshi Huanwei Woods, a Chinese manufacturer, said its flooring product should be exempt because it includes only a top veneer layer and a base layer “composed of short lumber ‘fingers’ running perpendicular to the veneer (like lined-up dominoes).” The scope of the AD/CV duty orders only imposes duties on flooring “composed of an assembly of two or more types of layers or plies of wood veneer(s) in combination with a core.” Commerce found the scope clear in excluding Huanwei’s product because it only has one veneer.