Notice of initiation of administrative review: Upholstered domestic seating (UDS 2026 UP1)
Ottawa,
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has today initiated an administrative review (review) to determine normal values, export prices and amounts of subsidy applicable to upholstered domestic seating (UDS) originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China) by Zhejiang Trayton Co., Ltd. (“Zhejiang Trayton”) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) by HTL Furniture Vietnam Company (“HTL Vietnam”).
The CBSA will be reviewing the exporters above, as well as related companies and any unrelated producers or trading companies that are involved in the production and sale of subject UDS to Canada through the above exporters. Zhejiang Trayton and HTL Vietnam will be instructed to forward a dumping and a subsidy request for information (RFI) to any relevant parties.
The review follows requests for re-determination filed by an importer and is part of the CBSA’s enforcement of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s (CITT) finding issued on , respecting the dumping and subsidizing of UDS originating in or exported from China and Vietnam, in accordance with the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA).
The product definition and the applicable tariff classification numbers of the goods subject to the CITT’s order (subject goods) can be found on the CBSA’s Measures in force.
Normal values, export prices and amount of subsidy established during this review will be effective for the subject goods released from the CBSA on or after the date of the conclusion of the review. Normal values, export prices and amount of subsidy determined on the basis of the review will be applied to any entries of subject goods under appeal that have yet to be re-determined at the time of the conclusion of this review.
Should an exporter decide to participate in this review, they are required to provide complete and accurate responses to the CBSA’s RFIs by . An exporter will be considered cooperative if the requested information is complete, submitted on time and the exporter permits verification of the data. The schedule for this administrative review is now available.
If an exporter does not provide sufficient information to determine specific normal values or does not permit verification of information submitted, anti-dumping duties will be assessed in accordance with a ministerial specification pursuant to section 29 of SIMA at a rate of 188.0% for goods originating in or exported from China and 179.5% for goods originating in or exported from Vietnam (expressed as a percentage of the export price of the subject goods imported into Canada).
Similarly, in cases where the Government of China, the Government of Vietnam or the exporters fail to provide complete and accurate submissions enabling the determination of specific amounts of subsidy, countervailing duties may be assessed at the rate of 1,390.65 CNY per piece for subject goods originating in or exported from China and 1,914,726.79 VND per piece for subject goods originating in or exported from Vietnam, in accordance with a ministerial specification pursuant to subsection 30.4(2) of SIMA.
Exporters that are not the manufacturers of the subject goods (e.g. trading companies, vendors, etc.) will receive normal values only to the extent that their suppliers/manufacturers provide sufficient information to permit the determination of normal values and export prices.
Responses to the importer RFI are due by . Importers are cautioned that new normal values, when issued, may be higher than those currently in effect and that this could result in additional assessments of anti-dumping duties. Importers are also cautioned that unless the Government of China, the Government of Vietnam and the exporters co-operate in the administrative review and receive specific normal values and amounts of subsidy at their conclusion, subsequent imports of subject goods from that exporter will be assessed anti-dumping and countervailing duties based on ministerial specifications.
All parties are cautioned that where there are increases in domestic prices, and/or costs, the export price for sales to Canada should be increased accordingly to ensure that any sale made to Canada is not only above the normal value but at or above selling prices and full costs and profit of the goods in the exporter’s domestic market. If exporters did not adjust export prices accordingly, retroactive assessments of anti-dumping duty may be warranted.
This administrative review will be initiated by CBSA through the Anti-dumping and countervailing e-filing (ACE) web application. Responses to all questionnaires must be filed through ACE. More information can be found on the ACE web application user guide.
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