USA Department of Commerce conducts anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation on plywood to China.
On September 28, 2012, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the first investigation of anti-dumping and countervailing measures against China's plywood. With the support and guidance of the Ministry of Commerce and the State Forestry Administration, the competent authorities of the major plywood producing areas and the respondent responded. With the coordination and cooperation of enterprises, our company also actively plays the leading role of the industry, calling on our cooperative companies to make joint efforts to actively contact the China Forest Products Industry Association, and finally raise nearly 3 million yuan, and hire the United States Senior lawyer through the China Forest Products Industry Association , also actively contacting American customers, persuading them to contact other American industry associations such as the American Furniture Association, the American Cabinet Association, etc., to put pressure on the U.S. Trade Commission (ITC) adjudication committee, and through the concerted efforts of domestic enterprises, the American Furniture Association, the Cabinet Association, etc The public relations work of other associations. On November 7, 2013, the United States ITC insisted on a fair position, and the case ended with ITC's declaration of no damage to its domestic industry.
On February 18, 2014, the plaintiff in the anti-dumping and anti subsidy investigation case of the US plywood filed another appeal to the US Trade Court, requesting to dismiss the US Trade Commission's (ITC) ruling that the plywood industry is harmless. After investigating and obtaining evidence, the United States Trade Court upheld the non-destructive ruling made by the United States ITC.
On November 18, 2016, taking advantage of Trump ’s trade protectionism, the US plywood industry, led by COLUMBIA FOREST PRODUCTS, submitted an application to the US government again, asking for anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on hardwood plywood imported from China. On December 1, 2017, the United States Trade Commission (ITC) voted that plywood imported from China was established to damage the US plywood industry. The U.S. Federal Register officially issued the anti-dumping and countervailing orders in the plywood case on January 5, 2018. The final DOC decision has confirmed its effectiveness, namely, an average tax rate of 206.34% and a punitive tax rate of 378.26%. During this period, our company repeatedly sent people to actively participate in various dual-response meetings organized in Beijing and Shandong, and again actively defended with industry leaders. However, the case was affected by the domestic environmental protection of the United States and caused plywood to be rejected. Ruling high double anti-tax rates.
On February 15, 2018, the U.S. plywood industry represented by companies such as COLUMBIA and TIMBER submitted an "anti-circumvention investigation" application for Chinese softwood (softwood) to the United States Department of Commerce (DOC), facing widespread pessimism and disappointment by domestic companies 2. Unwillingness to pay lawyer fees, our company actively participated again and took the lead role for lawyer fees of up to 120,000 US dollars. With the unremitting efforts of our company and other plywood export companies and the work of lawyers, April 2018 On the 2nd, the US Department of Commerce decided not to accept the application from the US prosecutor for anti-circumvention investigation. If the case is not filed, we have successfully won the first anti-circumvention investigation of American softwood plywood.
On June 26, 2018, the US plywood industry represented by companies such as COLUMBIA and TIMBER submitted to the US Department of Commerce an application for an anti-circumvention investigation against Chinese softwood plywood. On September 18, 2018, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) China's export of pine plywood to the United States officially launched an anti-circumvention investigation. Since our company ranked first in the number of US exports during the investigation period, we have been selected as a compulsory responding enterprise. Our company actively prepares various materials in response to the lawsuit, employs a team of American lawyers, pays lawyers' fees, and submits defense opinions to the US Department of Commerce. After more than a year of investigation and evidence collection, although our company has done a lot of preparations, in the context of the escalating Sino-US trade disputes, the US Department of Commerce signed on November 22, 2019 and November 25, 2019 Japan issued a final anti-circumvention ruling on pine plywood, which found that pine plywood imported from China avoided the double anti-tax of the original hardwood plywood, and ruled that pine wood plywood was included in the original double counter-order of plywood for taxation.
