Eleven Chinese furniture exporters failed to show they operate independently of the state, and from today their goods enter the United States at a 216.01 percent deposit rate

Nobody argued.

The Commerce Department published final results on Wednesday in the antidumping review of wooden bedroom furniture from China covering calendar 2024, and the notice explains its own brevity in one line: because no parties commented on the preliminary results, those results were adopted as the final ones. No decision memorandum accompanies the notice, because there was nothing left to decide.

What was decided in April therefore stands. Eleven companies did not establish their entitlement to a separate rate, which leaves them inside the China-wide entity and carrying its rate of 216.01 percent.

What a separate rate is, and is not

The distinction matters and it is easy to state backwards. Commerce treats China as a non-market economy, so exporters are presumed to be under state control unless each one demonstrates otherwise. A company that makes the showing gets its own calculated margin. A company that does not is folded into a single China-wide entity and takes the entity's rate.

The notice does not find that these eleven companies sold at 216.01 percent below fair value. It finds that they did not establish their entitlement to be looked at individually.

The eleven

Fine Furniture (Shanghai); Jiangmen Kinwai Furniture Decoration; Jiangmen Kinwai International Furniture; Nathan International and Nathan Rattan Factory; Rui Feng Woodwork, Rui Feng Lumber Development and Dorbest; Shenyang Shining Dongxing Furniture; Wanvog Furniture (Kunshan); Yeh Brothers World Trade; Zhangzhou Guohui Industrial and Trade; Zhongshan Fookyik Furniture; and Shenzhen New Fudu Furniture.

The dates

The results are applicable from today, and the cash deposit requirement takes effect for merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the publication date. Liquidation is slower. Commerce says it intends to instruct Customs and Border Protection to liquidate the relevant entries no earlier than 35 days after publication, and if a summons is filed in time at the Court of International Trade, entries stay unliquidated until the window for a statutory injunction closes 90 days out.

The order underneath all of this was published on 4 January 2005. It is in its twenty-second year.