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China Wood Flooring: Final Results of CV Admin Review

The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). The agency set new CV duty cash deposit rates for 159 Chinese producers and exporters. These final results, scheduled for publication in the Nov. 27 Federal Register, will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1, 2017, and Dec. 31, 2017.

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New Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect Nov. 27

New CV duty cash deposit rates for the producers and exporters still subject to his review take effect Nov. 27. Companies that didn't get a rate in this review will continue to get their most recently assigned cash deposit rate, and companies that have never been assigned a CV duty rate will get the all-others rate. The new rates, which will also apply for importer assessment purposes, are as follows:

Producer/ExporterCV Rate
Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd./Riverside Plywood Corp./Suzhou Times Flooring Co., Ltd14.09%
Jiangsu Guyu International Trading Co., Ltd./Jiangsu Shengyu Flooring Co., Ltd./Siyang County Shunyang Wood Co., Ltd./Shanghai Woyuan Industrial Co., Ltd.122.92%
Review Average Rate (Applicable to 157 companies)20.75%

Review average rate. The review average rate of 20.75% is applicable to 157 companies listed in Commerce's notice of preliminary results. See Commerce's notice for a full list.

No shipments. Commerce found 10 companies -- Anhui Boya Bamboo & Wood Products Co., Ltd., Anhui Yaolong Bamboo and Wood Products Co., Ltd., Armstrong Wood Products (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Changzhou Hawd Flooring Co., Ltd., Dalian Shengyu Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., Hunchun Forest Wolf Wooden Industry Co., Ltd., Jiashan On-Line Lumber Co., Ltd., Kingman Floors Co., Ltd., Yingyi-Nature (Kunshan) Wood Industry Co., Ltd., and Zhejiang Shiyou Timber Co., Ltd. -- did not have any exports to the U.S. during the period of review. These companies' CV duty cash deposit rates will not change, and any entries under their case numbers will be liquidated at the “all-others” rate.

(The review period is 01/01/17 - 12/31/17. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope of the order, detailed cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc. See 2002050033 for a summary of the preliminary results of this administrative review. AD/CVD Operations contact: Bob Palmer, (202) 482-9068.)