Many of you already might have read about this in the Hardwood magazine e-mail news yesterday. I recieved this in an email from a friend as well. Little more info than you can get elsewhere. The body of the email is in the next post. The list of Chinese manufacturers in this petition is to long to post, about 7 pages long.

TRADE ACTION REPORT

On October 21, 2010, an antidumping and countervailing duty petition was filed at the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission.

THE PRODUCT: Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of China

PETITIONER: The Coalition for American Hardwood Parity includes the following members:

Anderson Hardwood Floors, LLC
Bob Anderson Design Center
110 Milacron Drive
Fountain Inn, South Carolina 29644

Award Hardwood Floors
401 North 72nd Avenue
Wausau, Wisconsin 54401

Baker's Creek Wood Floors, Inc.
1245 Adams Lane
Edwards, Mississippi 39066

From the Forest
9004 Progress Way
Weston, Wisconsin 54476

Howell Hardwood Flooring
1114 Blackshear Street
Dothan, Alabama 36303

Mannington Mills, Inc.
75 Mannington Mills Road
Salem, New Jersey 08079

Nydree Flooring
1191 Venture Drive
Forest, Virginia 24551

Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
616 East Walnut Avenue
Dalton, Georgia 30722

OTHERS U.S. PRODUCERS: Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
2500 Columbia Avenue
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603

Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Unilin North America/Mohawk Hard Surfaces
7834 C.F. Hawn Freeway
Dallas, Texas 75217
Mohawk Industries
160 South Industrial Boulevard
Calhoun, Georgia 30701

Owens Flooring by Colonial Craft
105 Plank Road
Shawano, Wisconsin

QEP Comp., Inc.
101 Broken Sound Parkway, NW
Suite A
Boca Raton, Florida 33487

FOREIGN PRODUCERS/
EXPORTERS NAMED: See Exhibit I-6 (attached)

IMPORTERS / DISTRIBUTORS
NAMED: See Exhibit I-7 (attached)

CAUSES OF ACTION: Sales at less than fair value of product imported into the United States; estimated average dumping margin for Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of China is 242.2%.

Subsidized production and export of Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of China into the United States.

VOLUME AND VALUE OF
SUBJECT IMPORTS
VOLUME OF IMPORTS VALUE OF IMPORTS


PETITIONER'S COUNSEL: Jeffrey Levin, Esq.
Mondial Trade Compliance
7800 Beech Tree Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20817

----- Forwarded Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:49:24 AM
Subject: Multilayered Wood Flooring from China -- Antidumping & Countervailing Duty Petition

Gala Manufacturing just recieved word about this filing for a 242% import duty and wanted to share this with folks that may benefit from knowing about this information:



An assualt by certain US companies against Chinese engineered wood flooring and the US distributors/importers of that flooring has begun.

Although our group specifically is not named at this time some of our customers are in fact named and we will be vigilant in protecting them and their customers.

We will follow this closely to see what, if any, impact we can have to fight this beurocratic nonsense.

(note: armstrong is both a petitioner and a named offender - which is interesting because so many more of the companies petioning also import from china. This is just a move to bring production costs up in china to make the US seem more competitive while hitting the consumer with much higher prices.)

A similiar move in bedroom furniture resulted in a 400% duty on wooden bedroom sets from China, which only moved production to India, Taiwan and Vietnam. The same result would happen in flooring if this succeeds. Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries would simply pick up the production until the duty expires. The disruption caused, however, is not helpful in a weak market and I would encourage any of your to analyize your position on this duty and stay informed accordingly.

Anyway I just wanted to share this so that you all had access to this information in case you didn't already have this information.

Thanks,

sjs
http://www.GalaManufacturing.com
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Now I'm wondering if they whould go after LL....a $1.50 engineered hardwood? Come on man.

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