The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has received information that the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) continues to extend the timeline for issuing the final determination on the product scope review and the timeline for issuing the preliminary and final determinations on the investigation into the circumvention of trade remedy duties (currently applied to China) on wooden cabinets imported from Vietnam.
According to the DOC’s announcement, the final determination on the product scope review is expected to be issued on April 5, 2024. For the anti-circumvention investigation, the DOC has also extended the timeline for issuing the preliminary and final determinations to April 19, 2024, and July 18, 2024, respectively.
The investigations into the product scope and anti-circumvention duties were initiated by the DOC in May and June 2022, respectively. In September 2023, the DOC issued an amended preliminary determination from March 2023, listing three instances where wooden cabinets imported from Vietnam containing components produced in China fall within the scope of the original duty orders on China.
Previously, since April 2020, the United States has imposed anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) on wooden cabinets originating from China, with AD duties ranging from 4.37% to 262.18% and CVD duties ranging from 13.33% to 293.45%.
