China has requested that a Dispute Settlement Panel is convened under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules to examine several antidumping investigations by the US Department of Commerce.

China alleges that the Department of Commerce did not follow WTO obligations in its rulings on several products imported from China. Multilayer wood flooring and wooden bedroom furniture are among the products that the US investigated for antidumping.

China challenges the Department of Commerce's methodology in three aspects with respect to imported wood flooring and bedroom furniture imported from China:

1. The use of "single rate presumption for non-market economies"
2. "NME - wide methodology" which includes according to China's challenge, the failure to request information, the failure to provide rights of defense, and recourse to facts available
3. The use of "adverse facts available." Comments regarding the issues raised by China can be submitted to the US government at www.regulations.gov (docket number USTR - 2014 - 0001).

May 29, 2014

Source: ihb.de

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