Commerce Sets 1,731.75% AD Rate on Some Chinese Mattresses

The Commerce Department will set a retroactive antidumping duty cash deposit rate of 1,731.75 percent on some imports of Chinese mattresses, according to a pre-publication version of a preliminary determination issued May 29. The unusually high rate will apply to mattresses imported from the “China-wide entity,” i.e., all Chinese companies that didn’t certify they are independent of Chinese government control or producer-exporter combinations that weren't assigned an individual rate. The rate will also be retroactive to 90 days prior to the eventual publication date of Commerce’s notice. Commerce set rates ranging from 38.56% to 84.64% for other Chinese companies, with some of those duties retroactive as well, it said in a fact sheet .