The Commerce Department must reconsider U.S. duty rates on imports of wooden cabinets and vanities from China because the department didn’t explain why it changed its method for calculating the rates, the U.S. Court of International Trade said.
The U.S. in 2020 began imposing antidumping duties on Chinese wooden cabinets, vanities, and their parts. The U.S. imported an estimated $4.4 billion worth of subject merchandise from China in 2018, before the duties were in place, according to Commerce.
Commerce originally calculated dumping margins of 4.37% for The Ancientree Cabinet Co., 101.46% for Rizhao Foremost Woodwork Manufacturing Co., and 262.18% for …
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