US extends duties investigation into plywood from Vietnam
Hanoi (VNA) - The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has
announced that it will extend the deadline for issuing its final
conclusion on an anti-dumping tax evasion investigation into plywood imported from Vietnam,
according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Trade Remedies Authority.
Accordingly, the DOC plans to issue the conclusion on July
14. This is the eighth time the DOC has extended the deadline.
Previously, the DOC announced the preliminary conclusion of the
case on July 25 last year. It said that plywood imported from Vietnam into the
US, which had a core using peeled board imported from China, would be subject
to anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tax as applied to plywood imported from China.
Plywood from Vietnam which has a core using peeled boards manufactured
domestically or in other countries would be exempt from the tax.
The DOC allows Vietnamese enterprises that cooperate in
the investigation process to self-certify that they do not use Chinese
materials so as not to be subject to measures.
According to calculations of the sector, the number of enterprises participating
in self-certification accounts for about 80% of Vietnam's export turnover
during the investigation period./.