US Wood Flooring Makers Throw in Towel on AD Remand

The Commerce Department addressed "some of the distortions" in its earlier calculations on remand, but the department still undervalued the extent of dumping of multilayered wood flooring from China, the American Manufacturers of Multilayered Wood Flooring coalition said in its Sept. 25 remand comments at the Court of International Trade (American Manufacturers of Multilayered Wood Flooring v. U.S., CIT # 20-03948).

In its redetermination, Commerce modified its calculation of the surrogate values for financial ratios and labor and raised the dumping rate for respondent Fusong Jinglong Wooden Group from zero to 2.05%, while keeping the 0% rate for Jiangsu Guyu International Trading (see 2308250032).

Although Commerce addressed some of the distortions and created surrogate values that have resulted in "more representative" costs, the department still failed to fully capture input costs and continued to use undervalued surrogate costs, the AMMWF said. The coalition said that while it "continues to believe that the dumping margin calculated ... undervalues the actual extent of dumping," it will not continue to challenge the remand redetermination due to the "limited resources" of the domestic industry.

AMMFW said it intends to focus its efforts on "strong enforcement and accurate calculation of dumping margins in other proceedings."