Notice2025-18401
Multilayered Wood Flooring From the People's Republic of China: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; Notice of Amended Final Results
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Published
September 23, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
On September 11, 2025, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885, sustaining the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)'s remand results pertaining to the administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on multilayered wood flooring from the People's Republic of China (China) covering the period January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2017. Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the administrative review, and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to the countervailable subsidy rate assigned to Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo Wood Industry Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Senmao), Riverside Plywood Corporation (Riverside Plywood) and its cross-owned affiliate Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. (Baroque Timber), and the non-selected companies under review. Commerce is not amending the final results with respect to the countervailable subsidy rate assigned to Jiangsu Guyu International Trading Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Guyu).
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 23, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45718-45720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18401]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-570-971]
Multilayered Wood Flooring From the People's Republic of China:
Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Results of
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; Notice of Amended Final
Results
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On September 11, 2025, the U.S. Court of International Trade
(CIT) issued its final judgment in Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood
Industry Co., Ltd. et al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885,
sustaining the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)'s remand results
pertaining to the administrative review of the countervailing duty
(CVD) order on multilayered wood flooring from the People's Republic of
China (China) covering the period January 1, 2017, through December 31,
2017. Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is
not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the administrative
review, and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to
the countervailable subsidy rate assigned to Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo Wood
Industry Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Senmao), Riverside Plywood Corporation
(Riverside Plywood) and its cross-owned affiliate Baroque Timber
Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. (Baroque Timber), and the non-selected
companies under review. Commerce is not amending the final results with
respect to the countervailable subsidy rate assigned to Jiangsu Guyu
International Trading Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Guyu).
DATES: Applicable September 21, 2025.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Schueler or Laurel Smalley,
AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-9175
or (202) 482-3456, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 27, 2020, Commerce published its Final Results in the
2017 CVD administrative review of multilayered wood flooring from
China.\1\ Commerce selected Baroque Timber and Jiangsu Guyu as
mandatory respondents and denied Jiangsu Senmao's request for voluntary
respondent treatment.\2\ Commerce additionally included Harmonized
System (HS) code 4412.99 in its benchmark calculation under the
provision of plywood for less than adequate remuneration (LTAR) program
and applied the calculated benchmark under the provision of veneers for
LTAR program to Jiangsu Guyu's purchases of poplar core sheet during
the POR.\3\
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\1\ See Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of
China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of Countervailing Duty
Administrative Review; 2017, 85 FR 76011 (November 27, 2025) (Final
Results), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM).
\2\ Id. at Comment 1.
\3\ Id. at Comments 3 and 6.
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Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et al. appealed
Commerce's Final Results. On August 11, 2022, the U.S. Court of
International Trade (CIT) remanded the Final Results to Commerce,
ordering Commerce to reconsider its selection of mandatory respondents
for individual examination and its calculation of the rate for non-
selected companies, deferring the Court's examination of the remaining
issues challenging the Final Results until Commerce's respondent
selection had been reconsidered.\4\ Commerce clarified its analysis
concerning respondent selection and the use of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection data as a basis for selecting mandatory respondents for
individual examination, and on this basis deselected Jiangsu Guyu as a
mandatory respondent under individual examination.\5\
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\4\ See Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et al.
v. United States, 589 F. Supp. 3d 1195 (CIT 2022) (First Remand
Opinion and Order).
\5\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court
Remand, Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et al. v.
United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885, Slip Op. 22-93 (CIT
2022), dated December 7, 2022, available at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/resources/remands/22-93.pdf">https://access.trade.gov/resources/remands/22-93.pdf</a>.
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On February 14, 2023, the CIT granted Commerce's motion to
voluntarily consider the implications of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit's YC Rubber \6\ determination on Commerce's
respondent selection methodology and rate calculation of the companies
not under individual examination in this review.\7\ In the Second
Remand Results, Commerce further explained its respondent selection
methodology, continuing to select Baroque Timber as a mandatory
respondent under individual examination and apply the individually
calculated rate of Baroque Timber to all non-individually examined
companies under review.\8\
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\6\ See YC Rubber Co. (N. Am.) LLC v. United States, No. 2021-
1489 (Fed. Circ. Aug. 29, 2022) (YC Rubber).
\7\ See Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et al.
v. United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885, February 14, 2023 (ECF
114).
\8\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court
Remand, Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et al. v.
United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885, Remand (CIT 2023), dated
March 31, 2023 (Second Remand Results), available at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/resources/remands/20-03885.pdf">https://access.trade.gov/resources/remands/20-03885.pdf</a>.
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On March 24, 2025, the CIT issued its Third Remand Opinion and
Order, concluding that Commerce's reconsideration of its respondent
selection methodology and rate calculation for the companies not
individually examined was inconsistent with YC Rubber, and ordering
Commerce to select Jiangsu Senmao for examination and re-calculate the
all-others rate based on more than one respondent.\9\ The CIT
additionally ordered Commerce to reconsider its benefit calculations
for the provision of plywood and veneers for LTAR programs, originally
deferred in the First Remand Opinion and Order.\10\
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\9\ See Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et al.
v. United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885, Slip Op. 25-28, 769
F.Supp.3d 1344 (March 24, 2025) (Third Remand Opinion and Order).
\10\ Id.
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In its final remand redetermination, issued on August 8, 2025,
Commerce examined Jiangsu Senmao as a mandatory respondent in the
underlying administrative review and reconsidered the benchmark
calculations for the provision of plywood and veneer for LTAR programs,
further revising the rate for non-examined companies under review to be
based on the individually calculated rates for Baroque Timber and
Jiangsu Senmao.\11\ The CIT sustained Commerce's final remand
redetermination in full.\12\
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\11\ See Final Results of Remand Redetermination Pursuant to
Court Remand, Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et
al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885, Slip. Op. 25-28
(CIT March 24, 2025) (Final Remand Redetermination), available at
<a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FinalRemandRedetermination">https://access.trade.gov/public/FinalRemandRedetermination</a>.
\12\ See Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. et
al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 20-03885, Slip Op. 25-28
(September 11, 2025).
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Timken Notice
In its decision in Timken,\13\ as clarified by Diamond
Sawblades,\14\ the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held
that, pursuant to sections 516A(c) and (e) of the Act, Commerce must
publish a notice of court decision that is not ``in harmony'' with a
Commerce determination and must suspend liquidation of entries pending
a ``conclusive'' court decision. The CIT's September 11, 2025, judgment
constitutes a final decision of the CIT that is not in harmony with
Commerce's Final Results. Thus, this notice is published in fulfillment
of the publication requirements of Timken.
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\13\ See Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir.
1990) (Timken).
\14\ See Diamond Sawblades Manufacturers Coalition v. United
States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (Diamond Sawblades).
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Amended Final Results
Because there is now a final court judgment, Commerce is amending
its Final Results with respect to Jiangsu Senmao, Riverside Plywood and
the non-selected companies under review as follows:
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\15\ Cross-owned affiliate are Baroque Timber and Suzhou Times
Flooring Co., Ltd.
\16\ Based on the final remand redetermination, the total ad
valorem subsidy rate assigned to Jiangsu Guyu remains the same as
the rate assigned in the Final Results. See Second Remand Results.
\17\ The non-selected companies to which this rate applies are
listed in Appendix II.
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Subsidy rate
Producer/exporter (percent ad
valorem)
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Riverside Plywood Corporation and Its Cross-Owned 13.18
Affiliates \15\........................................
Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo Wood Industry Co., Ltd............ 2.45
Jiangsu Guyu International Trading Co., Ltd............. \16\ 122.94
Non-selected companies under review \17\................ 10.02
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Cash Deposit Requirements
Commerce will issue revised cash deposit instructions to U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Because the companies listed in
Appendix I of this notice have a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e.,
there have been final results published in a subsequent administrative
review, we will not issue revised cash deposit instructions to
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CBP. This notice will not affect the current cash deposit rate for
those exporters/producers. For Houzhou Chenchang Wood Co., Ltd.,
Shenzhenshi Huanwei Woods Co., Ltd., and Zhejiang Biyork Wood Co.,
Ltd., which do not have superseding cash deposit rates, Commerce will
issue revised cash deposit instructions to CBP.
Liquidation of Suspended Entries
At this time, Commerce remains enjoined by the CIT order from
liquidating entries that: were produced and/or exported by Riverside
Plywood Corporation, including its cross-owned affiliates; Jiangsu
Senmao Bamboo Wood Industry Co., Ltd.; and the companies listed in
Appendix II of this notice, and were entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption during the period January 1, 2017, through
December 31, 2017. These entries will remain enjoined pursuant to the
terms of the injunction during the pendency of any appeals process.
In the event the CIT's ruling is not appealed or, if appealed,
upheld by a final and conclusive court decision, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to assess countervailing duties on unliquidated entries of
subject merchandise produced and/or exported by the companies listed in
Appendix II of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b). We
will instruct CBP to assess countervailing duties on all appropriate
entries covered by this review when the ad valorem rate is not zero or
de minimis. Where an ad valorem subsidy rate is zero or de minimis,\18\
we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without
regard to countervailing duties.
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\18\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections
516A(c) and (e) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: September 17, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
List of Companies With Superseding Cash Deposit Requirements
1. Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd.
2. Dalian Jiahong Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
3. Dalian Penghong Floor Products Co., Ltd.
4. Dalian Qianqiu Wooden Product Co., Ltd.
5. Dalian Shumaike Floor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
6. Dongtai Fuan Universal Dynamics, LLC
7. Dunhua City Jisen Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
8. Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited
9. Fusong Jinlong Wooden Group Co., Ltd.
10. Fusong Jinqiu Wooden Product Co., Ltd.
11. Fusong Qianqiu Wooden Product Co., Ltd.
12. Jiangsu Guyu International Trading Co., Ltd.
13. Jiangsu Keri Wood Co., Ltd.
14. Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
15. Jiangsu Simba Flooring Co., Ltd.
16. Jiashan Huijiale Decoration Material Co., Ltd.
17. Kemian Wood Industry (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
18. Linyi Anying Wood Co., Ltd.
19. Linyi Youyou Wood Co., Ltd.
20. Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.
21. Pinge Timber Manufacturing (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.
22. Riverside Plywood Corporation
23. Scholar Home (Shanghai) New Material Co. Ltd.
24. Sino-Maple (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
25. Sino Maple (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Jiafeng Wood
(Suzhou) Co., Ltd.)
26. Tongxiang Jisheng Import and Export Co., Ltd.
27. Zhejiang Dadongwu GreenHome Wood Co., Ltd.
28. Zhejiang Jiechen Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
Appendix II
List of Companies Subject to These Amended Final Results
1. Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd.
2. Dalian Jiahong Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
3. Dalian Penghong Floor Products Co., Ltd.
4. Dalian Qianqiu Wooden Product Co., Ltd.
5. Dalian Shumaike Floor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
6. Dongtai Fuan Universal Dynamics, LLC
7. Dunhua City Jisen Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
8. Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited
9. Fusong Jinlong Wooden Group Co., Ltd.
10. Fusong Jinqiu Wooden Product Co., Ltd.
11. Fusong Qianqiu Wooden Product Co., Ltd.
12. Houzhou Chenchang Wood Co., Ltd.
13. Jiangsu Guyu International Trading Co., Ltd.
14. Jiangsu Keri Wood Co., Ltd.
15. Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
16. Jiangsu Simba Flooring Co., Ltd.
17. Jiashan Huijiale Decoration Material Co., Ltd.
18. Kemian Wood Industry (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
19. Linyi Anying Wood Co., Ltd.
20. Linyi Youyou Wood Co., Ltd.
21. Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.
22. Pinge Timber Manufacturing (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.
23. Riverside Plywood Corporation
24. Scholar Home (Shanghai) New Material Co. Ltd.
25. Shenzhenshi Huanwei Woods Co., Ltd.
26. Sino-Maple (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
27. Sino Maple (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Jiafeng Wood
(Suzhou) Co., Ltd.)
28. Tongxiang Jisheng Import and Export Co., Ltd.
29. Zhejiang Biyork Wood Co., Ltd.
30. Zhejiang Dadongwu GreenHome Wood Co., Ltd.
31. Zhejiang Jiechen Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
[FR Doc. 2025-18401 Filed 9-22-25; 8:45 am]
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