[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 7, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11394-11397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-3172]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-570-890


Notice of Initiation of Administrative Review of the Antidumping 
Duty Order on Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the People's Republic of 
China

AGENCY: AGENCY:Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``Department'') received timely 
requests to conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duty 
order on wooden bedroom furniture from the People's Republic of China 
(``PRC''). The anniversary month of this order is January. In 
accordance with the Department's regulations, we are initiating this 
administrative review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 7, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eugene Degnan or Robert Bolling, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 8, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone: (202) 
482-0414 or (202) 482-3434, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department received timely requests, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.213(b) (2002), during the anniversary month of January, for an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom 
furniture from the PRC covering 137 entities. Subsequently, 30 
requesters withdrew their requests for review. The Department is now 
initiating an administrative review of the order covering the remaining 
107 companies.

Initiation of Review

    In accordance with section 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we are 
initiating an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
wooden bedroom furniture from the PRC. We intend to issue the final 
results of this review not later than January 31, 2007.

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        Antidumping Duty Proceeding             Period to be Reviewed
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THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:\1\........
Wooden Bedroom Furniture A-570-890........            6/24/04 - 12/31/05
 Art Heritage International Ltd.,
 Super Art Furniture Co. Ltd., Artwork
 Metal & Plastic Co., Ltd., Jibson
 Industries, Always Loyal International*..
 Baigou Crafts Factory of Fengkai.
 Best King International Limited,
 Best King International Ltd., Bouvrie
 International Limited....................
 Birchfield Design Group, Inc.,
 Birchfield Design (Asia), Ltd., Dongguan
 Birchfield Gifts Co., Ltd., Dongguan
 Longreen Birchfield Arts & Craft Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Chiu's Faithful Furniture
 (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Faithful
 International Trading (Hong Kong) Company
 Limited..................................
 Conghua J.L. George Timber & Co..
 Dalian Guangming Furniture Co.,
 Ltd.*....................................
 Dalian Huafeng Furniture Co.,
 Ltd.*....................................
 DaLian Pretty Home Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Dawn Smart Furniture Co., Ltd....
 Decca Furniture Limited and other
 affiliates of Decca Holdings Limited.....
 Deqing Ace Furniture & Crafts
 Limited..................................
 Der Cheng Furniture Co., Ltd.....
 Dong Guan Hua Ban Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Dongguan Cambridge Furniture Co.,
 Ltd., Glory Oceanic Co., Ltd.*...........
 Dongguan Dihao Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Dongguan Landmark Furniture
 Products Ltd.............................
 Dongguan Lung Dong Furniture Co.,
 Ltd., Dongguan Dong He Furniture Co.,
 Ltd., Engmost Investment Ltd.*...........
 Dongguan Mingsheng Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Dongguan New Technology Import &
 Export Co., Ltd..........................

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 Dongguan Sea Eagle Furniture Co.,
 Ltd., Kalanter (Hong Kong) Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Dongguan Sunpower Enterprise Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co.,
 Taicang Sunrise Wood Industry Co., Ltd,
 Shanghai Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd.,
 Fairmont Designs *.......................
 Dongguan Yihaiwei Furniture
 Limited..................................
 Dream Rooms Furniture (Shanghai)
 Co., Ltd.*...............................
 Ever Spring Furniture Co., Ltd.,
 S.Y.C. Family *..........................
 Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited
 and its affiliates *.....................
 Foshan Guanqiu Furniture Co.,
 Ltd.*....................................
 Fujian Lianfu Forestry Co., Ltd.,
 Fujian Wonder Pacific Inc., Fuzhou Huan
 Mei Furniture Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Dare
 Furniture Co. Ltd.*......................
 Fujian Senda Foreign Trade Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Fuzhou Huan Mei Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Gaomi Yatai Wooden Ware Co.,
 Ltd., Team Prospect International Ltd.*..
 Guangdong New Four Seas Furniture
 Manufacturing, Ltd., Four Seas Furniture
 Manufacturing Ltd........................
 Guangzhou Lucky Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Guangzhou Maria Yee Furnishings,
 Ltd., Pyla HK Ltd., Maria Yee, Inc.......
 Hainan Rulai Furniture Co., Ltd..
 Honest Furniture Company Ltd.....
 Hong Yu Furniture (Shenzhen).....
 Huizhou Jadom Furniture Co.,
 Ltd., Jadom Furniture Co., Ltd...........
 Hung Fai Wood Products Factory
 Ltd......................................
 Hwangho New Century Furniture
 (Dongguan) Corp. Ltd., Trade Rich
 Furniture (Dongguan) Corp., Ltd., Hwang
 Ho International Holdings Limited........
 Inni Furniture...................
 Jiangmen Kinwai Furniture
 Decoration Co., Ltd., Jiangmen Kinwai
 International Furniture Co., Ltd.*.......
 King Kei Trading Co. Ltd. King
 Kei Furniture Factory, Jiu Ching Trading
 Co., Ltd.................................
 King Wood Furniture Co., Ltd.....
 Kong Fong Furniture..............
 Kong Fong Mao Iek Hong...........
 Kunwa Enterprises Company........
 Lacquer Craft Mfg. Co., Ltd.,
 Samson Holding Ltd., Samson International
 Enterprises, Legacy Classic Furniture,
 Universal Furniture International Inc.*..
 Langfang TianCheng Furniture,
 Huari Furniture*.........................
 Leefu Wood (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.,
 King Rich International, Ltd.*...........
 Locke Furniture Factory, Kai Chan
 Furniture Co. Ltd., Kai Chan (Hong Kong)
 Enterprise Ltd., Taiwan Kai Chan*........
 Maestro Wood Product Factory.....
 Mandarin Furniture (Shenzhen)
 Co., Ltd.................................
 Meikangchi (Nantong) Furniture
 Company Ltd..............................
 Million Kind Co., Ltd............
 Million Kind Furniture Co., Ltd.
 Million Kind Co., Ltd....................
 NanTong YangZi Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Nathan International Ltd., Nathan
 Rattan Factory, Nathan China Group*......
 Ngai Kun Trading.................
 Ningbo Furniture Industries Ltd.,
 Ningbo Fubang Furniture Industries
 Limited, Techniwood Industries Limited,
 Techniwood (Macao Commercial Offshore)
 Limited, Ningbo Techniwood Furniture
 Industries Limited*......................
 Placetech Co., Ltd...............
 Po Ying Industrial Co............
 Profit Force Limited.............
 Protrend Metal & Plastics
 (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd......................
 Putian Ou Dian Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Qingdao Beiyuan-Shengli Furniture
 Co., Ltd., Qingdao Beiyuan Industry
 Trading Co. Ltd..........................
 Qingdao Shengchang Wooden Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 RiZhao SanMu Woodworking Co.,
 Ltd., RiZhao SanMu Woodworking Group*....
 Rui Feng Woodwork (Dongguan) Co.,
 Rui Feng Lumber Development (Shenzhen)
 Co., Ltd.*...............................
 Senyuan Furniture Group..........
 Shanghai Aosen Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Shenyang Kunyu Wood Industry Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Shenzhen Dafuhao Industrial
 Development Co., Ltd.....................
 Shenzhen Shen Long Hang Industry
 Co., Ltd.................................
 Shenzhen Tiancheng Furniture Co.,
 Ltd., Winbuild Industrial Ltd., Red Apple
 Furniture Co., Ltd., Red Apple Trading
 Co., Ltd.................................
 Sino Concord (Zhangzhou)
 Furniture Co., Ltd., Sino Concord
 International Corp.......................
 Speedy International Ltd.........
 Starcorp Furniture (Shanghai)
 Co., Ltd., Shanghai Starcorp Furniture
 Co., Ltd., Orin*.........................
 Sunforce Furniture (Hui-Yang)
 Co., Ltd., SunFung Wooden Factory, Sun
 Fung Co., Shin Feng Furniture Co. Ltd.,
 Stupendous International Co. Ltd.*.......
 T.J. Maxx International Co., Ltd.
 Tianjin First Wood Co., Ltd......
 Tianjin Sande Fairwood Furniture
 Co., Ltd.*...............................
 Time Crown (U.K.) International
 Ltd., China United International Co......
 Top Art Furniture................
 Top Goal Development Co., Top
 Goal Furniture Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen)......

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 Tradewinds Furniture Ltd.,
 Fortune Glory Industrial Ltd. (HK Ltd.)
 Nanhai Jiantai Woodwork Co., Ltd.*.......
 Transworld (Zhangzhou) Furniture
 Co., Ltd.................................
 Trendex Industries Ltd., Trendex
 Industries Ltd., (BVI), Dongguan Chunsan
 Wood Products Co., Ltd., Kunshan Junsen
 Furniture Co., Ltd.*.....................
 Triple J Enterprises Co..........
 Triple J Furniture (Shenzhen)
 Co., Ltd.................................
 Wan Bao Cheng Group Hong Kong
 Co., Ltd.................................
 Wanhengton Nueevder (Furniture)
 Manufacture Co., Ltd., Dongguan
 Wanhengton Industry Co., Ltd.*...........
 WBE Industries (Hui-Yang) Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Winmost Enterprises Limited......
 Winny Universal, Ltd.............
 Xilinmen Group Co., Ltd..........
 Yihua Timber Industries Co.,
 Ltd., New Classic Home Furnishings, Inc.*
 Yixinglong Furniture Co., Ltd....
 Yongxin Industrial (Holdings)
 Limited..................................
 Zhejiang Niannianhong Industrial
 Co., Ltd.................................
 Zhongshan Fine Furniture.........
 Zhongshan Gainwell Furniture Co.,
 Ltd......................................
 Zhongshan Golden King Furniture
 Industrial Co., Ltd., King Group
 Furniture*...............................
 Zhongshan Winly Furniture Ltd....
 Zhongshan Winny Furniture Ltd....
 Zhongshan Youcheng Wooden Arts &
 Crafts Co., Ltd..........................
* These companies received a separate rate
 in the prior segment (the less-than-fair-
 value-investigation) of this proceeding..
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\1\ If one of the above named companies does not qualify for a separate
  rate, all other exporters of wooden bedroom furniture from the PRC
  that have not qualified for a separate rate are deemed to be covered
  by this review as part of the single PRC entity of which the named
  exporter is a part.

Sampling

    Section 777A(c)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), directs the Department to calculate individual dumping margins 
for each known exporter and producer of the subject merchandise. Where 
it is not practicable to examine all known producers/exporters of 
subject merchandise, section 777A(c)(2) of the Act permits the 
Department to examine either (1) a sample of exporters, producers or 
types of products that is statistically valid based on the information 
available at the time of selection; or (2) exporters and producers 
accounting for the largest volume of the subject merchandise from the 
exporting country that can be reasonably examined.
    Due to the large number of firms requested for an administrative 
review and the Department's experience regarding the resulting 
administrative burden to review each company for which a request has 
been made, the Department is considering exercising its authority to 
limit the number of respondents selected for review by sampling. See 
Section 777A(c) of the Act.
    Should the Department determine to sample, it will follow the 
procedures outlined below. The Department will 1) Issue a letter to the 
interested parties detailing the proposed sampling methodology and the 
deadline for submitting comments thereon, 2) after analyzing the 
parties' comments, finalize its sampling methodology, 3) notify the 
parties and invite them to send a representative to witness the 
sampling selection, 4) conduct the sampling exercise, 5) notify all 
interested parties of the selection outcome of the sampling exercise 
(selected respondents will be issued the full antidumping 
questionnaire), and 6) record the results in a memo to the file.

Withdrawl of Request for Administrative Review

    For this particular administrative review, due to the time 
constraints imposed by our statutory deadlines, and the need to 
preserve the statistical validity of the sampling methodology, it is 
unlikely that the Department will be able to grant any extensions to 
the 90-day time limit for withdrawals of request for review pursuant to 
19 CFR 351.213(d)(1).

Separate Rates

    In proceedings involving Non-Market Economy (``NME'') countries, 
the Department begins with a rebuttable presumption that all companies 
within the country are subject to government control and, thus, should 
be assigned a single antidumping duty deposit rate. It is the 
Department's policy to assign all exporters of merchandise subject to 
investigation in an NME country this single rate unless an exporter can 
demonstrate that it is sufficiently independent so as to be entitled to 
a separate rate.
    To establish whether a firm is sufficiently independent from 
government control of its export activities to be entitled to a 
separate rate, the Department analyzes each entity exporting the 
subject merchandise under a test arising from the Final Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from the People's Republic 
of China, 56 FR 20588 (May 6, 1991) (``Sparklers''), as amplified by 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide 
from the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 22585 (May 2,1994) 
(``Silicon Carbide''). In accordance with the separate-rates criteria, 
the Department assigns separate rates to companies in NME cases only if 
respondents can demonstrate the absence of both de jure and de facto 
government control over export activities.
    The Department recently modified the process by which exporters and 
producers may obtain separate-rate status in NME investigations. See 
Policy Bulletin 05.1: Separate-Rates Practice and Application of 
Combination Rates in Antidumping Investigations Involving Non-Market 
Economy Countries, (April 5, 2005), available on the Department's 
website at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/policy/bull05-1.pdf. The process now 
requires the submission of a separate-rate status application.
    Due to the large number of firms requesting an administrative 
review in this proceeding, the Department is requiring all firms listed 
above that wish to qualify for separate-rate status in this 
administrative review to complete, as

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appropriate, either a separate-rate status application or 
certification, as described below. If the Department determines to 
select the mandatory respondents through sampling in this 
administrative review, the Department will require all potential 
respondents to demonstrate their eligibility for a separate rate. The 
Department then will make the separate-rate determinations and allow 
only those respondents with separate-rate status to be included in the 
sampling pool. For those respondents that are determined later in this 
segment to have provided inaccurate information regarding their 
separate-rate status, the Department may apply facts available with an 
adverse inference.
    For this administrative review, in order to demonstrate separate-
rate eligibility, the Department requires entities for whom a review 
was requested that were assigned a separate rate in the previous 
segment of this proceeding to certify that they continue to meet the 
criteria for obtaining a separate rate. The certification form will be 
available on the Department's website at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ on the 
date of publication of this Federal Register. In responding to the 
certification, please follow the ``Instructions for Filing the 
Certification'' in the Separate Rate Certification. Certifications are 
due to the Department no later than March 30, 2006. The deadline and 
requirement for submitting a Certification applies equally to NME-owned 
firms, wholly foreign-owned firms, and foreign sellers who purchase the 
subject merchandise and export it to the United States.
    For entities that have not previously been assigned a separate 
rate, to demonstrate eligibility for such, the Department requires a 
separate-rate status application. The separate-rate status application 
will be available on the Department's website at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ 
on the date of publication of this Federal Register. In responding to 
the separate-rate status application, refer to the instructions 
contained in the application. Separate-rate status applications are due 
to the Department no later than April 18, 2006. The deadline and 
requirement for submitting a separate-rate status application applies 
equally to NME-owned firms, wholly foreign-owned firms, and foreign 
sellers that purchase the subject merchandise and export it to the 
United States. Further, if the Department decides to select mandatory 
respondents by sampling, due to the time constraints imposed by our 
statutory deadlines and the need to preserve the statistical validity 
of the sampling methodology, the Department may be unable to grant any 
extensions for the submission of separate-rate certifications or 
applications.

Quantity and Value Questionnaire

    In advance of issuance of the antidumping questionnaire, we will 
also be requiring all parties for whom a review is requested to respond 
to a Quantity and Value (``Q&V'') questionnaire, which will request 
information on the respective quantity and U.S. dollar sales value of 
all exports to the United States of wooden bedroom furniture during the 
period of June 24, 2004, through December 31, 2005. Additionally, in 
the event sampling is employed, in order to determine a sampling method 
that is representative of the sales under review, the Department will 
require that each company complete the economic characteristics section 
of the Q&V questionnaire. The Q&V questionnaire will be available on 
the Department's website at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ on the date of 
publication of this Federal Register. The responses to the Q&V 
questionnaire are due to the Department no later than April 7, 2006. 
Due to the time constraints imposed by our statutory and regulatory 
deadlines, and the need to preserve the statistical validity of the 
sampling methodology, the Department may not be able to grant any 
extensions for the submission of the Q&V questionnaire. In responding 
to the Q&V questionnaire, refer to the instructions contained in the 
Q&V questionnaire.

Notice

    This notice constitutes public notification to all firms requested 
for review and seeking separate-rate status in this administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from 
the PRC that they must submit a separate-rate status application or 
certification (as appropriate) as described above, and a complete 
response to the Q&V questionnaire within the time limits established in 
this notice of initiation of administrative review in order to receive 
consideration for separate-rate status. In other words, the Department 
will not give consideration to any separate-rates certification or 
separate rate-status application made by parties that fail to timely 
respond to the Q&V questionnaire or fail to timely submit the requisite 
separate-rate certification or application. All information submitted 
by respondents in this administrative review is subject to 
verification. To allow the possibility for sampling and to complete 
this segment within the statutory time frame, the Department will be 
limited in its ability to extend deadlines on the above submissions. As 
noted above, the separate-rate certification, the separate-rate status 
application, and the Q&V questionnaire will be available on the 
Department's website at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ on the date of 
publication of this Federal Register. However, because this is the 
first administrative review in which the Department is applying these 
procedures, the Department will also issue, as a courtesy to the 
parties, a letter of notification of these requirements to the parties 
requested for review.
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. 
Instructions for filing such applications may be found on the 
Department's website at http://ia.ita.doc.gov.
    This initiation and notice are in accordance with section 751(a) of 
the Act (19 USC 1675(a)), and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).

    Dated: February 28, 2006.
Wendy J. Frankel,
Director, AD/CVD Operations, Office 8, for Import Administration.
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