Commerce Delays Initiation of Antidumping Case on Wooden Bedroom Furniture From China
As previously reported, the Commerce Department is in the process of polling the U.S. domestic furniture industry to determine whether a minimum percentage of the domestic industry supports the petition. The Commerce Department today published in the Federal Register a request for all domestic producer/manufacturers of wooden bedroom furniture to submit a response to a number of questions regarding their support for the petition. Responses to the questionnaire are due on November 26, 2003. In addition, Commerce announced that it is extending the deadline to inititate this investigation by 20 days in order to analyze the polling results. The new initiation deadline is December 10, 2003.