• On January 29, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced the initiation of antidumping duty (AD) and a countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of wood mouldings and millwork products from Brazil (AD only) and China.
• The AD and CVD laws provide U.S. businesses and workers with a transparent, quasi-judicial, and internationally accepted mechanism to seek relief from market-distorting effects caused by injurious dumping and unfair subsidization of imports into the United States, establishing an opportunity to compete on a level playing field.
• For the purpose of AD investigations, dumping occurs when a foreign company sells a product in the United States at less than its fair value. For the purpose of CVD investigations, a countervailable subsidy is financial assistance from a foreign government that benefits the production of goods from foreign companies and is limited to specific enterprises or industries or is contingent either upon export performance or upon the use of domestic goods over imported goods.
• The petitioner is the Coalition of American Millwork Producers, whose members are Bright Wood Corporation (Madras, OR), Cascade Wood Products, Inc. (White City, OR), Endura Products, Inc. (Colfax, NC), Sierra Pacific Industries (Red Bluff, CA), Sunset Moulding (Live Oak, CA), Woodgrain Millwork, Inc. (Fruitland, ID), and Yuba River Moulding (Yuba City, CA). • The scope of these investigations is provided in Appendix I.
• In 2018, imports of wood mouldings and millwork products from Brazil and China were valued at an estimated $291.8 million and $208.4 million, respectively.
• The Initiation Decision Checklists are on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance’s Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov, and to all parties in the Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. Please refer to case numbers: A-570-117 and C-570-118 for the China AD and CVD investigations, respectively; and A-351-853 for the Brazil AD investigation.
NEXT STEPS
• The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations on or before February 24, 2020.
• If the ITC determines that there is a reasonable indication that imports of wood mouldings and millwork products from Brazil and/or China materially injure, or threaten material injury to, the domestic industry, the investigations will continue and Commerce will be scheduled to announce its preliminary CVD determination on April 3, 2020, and its preliminary AD determinations on June 17, U.S. Department of Commerce | International Trade Administration | Enforcement and Compliance 2020, although these dates may be extended. If the ITC’s determinations are negative, the investigations will be terminated. More →
