Extension of Furniture Anti-Dumping Duties a Preview of Bigger U.S. Trade Protections to Come
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| Randy Hanson |
By Randy Hanson
Furniture Today is reporting the U.S. International Trade Commission voted this week to keep anti-dumping duties in place for another five years on wooden bedroom furniture made in China.
Parties active in the furniture industry are aware of longstanding and ongoing efforts among U.S. domestic producers to combat what they consider to be unfair pricing by Chinese manufacturers, claiming many foreign goods are priced below cost. Such efforts to fight unfairly priced imports by turning to the ITC have gained periodic but passing notoriety, such as with the publication in 2014 of Beth Macy’s book about John Bassett III called “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local, and Helped Save an American Town.” Bassett was described by National Public Radio as “a determined owner who fought back against the foreign onslaught — both by filing anti-dumping charges with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Chinese firms and by making his own company more competitive”.
Read more »Parties active in the furniture industry are aware of longstanding and ongoing efforts among U.S. domestic producers to combat what they consider to be unfair pricing by Chinese manufacturers, claiming many foreign goods are priced below cost. Such efforts to fight unfairly priced imports by turning to the ITC have gained periodic but passing notoriety, such as with the publication in 2014 of Beth Macy’s book about John Bassett III called “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local, and Helped Save an American Town.” Bassett was described by National Public Radio as “a determined owner who fought back against the foreign onslaught — both by filing anti-dumping charges with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Chinese firms and by making his own company more competitive”.
Labels: Chinese manufacturing, Furniture, International Trade Commission, NAFTA, World Trade Organization
