China Wood Flooring: Amended Final Results of AD Admin Review
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring (MLWF) from China (A-570-970) based on the final decision in a Court of International Trade case challenging those final results.
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In the final results of the AD review (see 2110280032), covering the period Dec. 1, 2018, though Nov. 30, 2019, Commerce assigned mandatory respondent the Jinlong group of companies a 85.13% AD rate, as part of the China-wide entity, determining that it didn't qualify for a separate rate. The other mandatory respondent, Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd., was assigned a zero percent AD rate. Commerce also assigned a zero percent AD rate to each of the separate-rate companies not individually examined in the review.
Based on the judgment in the Feb. 8, 2024, CIT decision, Commerce's recalculated AD rate for the non-individually examined separate rate companies, a simple average of the other two rates, of 42.57% will now be applied effective Feb. 18, 2024. See Appendix II of the notice for the list of companies.
Because certain separate rate respondents have a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there have been final results published in a subsequent administrative review, Commerce will not issue revised cash deposit instructions to CBP for those companies, and the current cash deposit rate for them will not change. However, Commerce will issue revised cash deposit instructions to CBP for the separate rate respondents that do not have a superseding cash deposit rate. See Appendix I of the notice for the list of those companies.
The notice also said that Commerce remains, at this time, "enjoined by CIT order from liquidating entries that were exported by the non-individually-examined separate rate respondents and were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period December 1, 2018, through November 30, 2019."
(The review period is 12/01/18 - 11/30/19. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope of the order, detailed cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc.)