US Dept. of Commerce Adds Antidumping and Countervailing Duties to Certain Hardwood Plywood Products Exported From Vietnam

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) recently issued its final determination that plywood exported from Vietnam using inputs sourced from China is a product of China and is therefore subject to the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on hardwood plywood exported from China, according to a report by Floor Daily (7-31-23).

In 2020, the Coalition for Fair Trade of Hardwood Plywood brought the circumvention case against imports from Vietnam, after volume spiked following the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on China.

In its ruling, the DOC determined that “imports of certain hardwood plywood products (hardwood plywood), completed in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam)) using plywood inputs and components (face, veneer, back veneer, and/or either an assembled core or individual core veneers) manufactured in the People’s Republic of China (China) are circumventing the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on hardwood plywood from China.”

A total of 37 companies were found to have failed to cooperate or failed to respond. The DOC has ordered US Customers and Border Protection to collect cash deposits from these 37 companies at the China-wide rate of 183% for antidumping and 23% for countervailing duty.

A full list of these companies and the official notice are available here.