U.S. International Trade Commission: Steel Wire Garment Hangers from China. Investigation No. 731-TA-1123 (Final)

摘要

Domestic producer M&B Metal Products Company, Inc. (M&B) filed a petition on behalf of the domestic industry on July 31, 2007. Representatives of M&B appeared at the hearing and filed prehearing and posthearing briefs. Laidlaw Company LLC (Laidlaw) and United Wire Hanger Corporation (United Wire) are former U.S. producers that currently import SWG hangers from China. Representatives of Laidlaw and United Wire appeared at the hearing and filed prehearing and posthearing briefs on behalf of those companies and the following Chinese subject producers: Shangyu Baoxiang Metal Product Co. Ltd.; Zhejiang Lucky Cloud Hanger Co., Ltd.; Shaoxing Dingli Metal Clotheshorse Co.; Shaoxing Liangbao Metal Products Co., Ltd.; Shaoxing Meideli Metal Products Co., Ltd.; Shaoxing Shunji Metal Clotheshorse Co., Ltd.; Pujiang County Command Metal Products Co., Ltd.; Ningbo Dasheng Hanger Ind. Co., Ltd.; Jiaxing Boyi Medical Device Co., Ltd.; Yiwu Ao-Si Metal Products Co., Ltd.; Shaoxing Guohao Metallic Products Co., Ltd; and Shaoxing Zhangbao Metal Manufactured Co., Ltd. Representatives of importer Willert Home Products, Inc. (Willert) participated at the hearing and filed prehearing and posthearing briefs. Representatives of the laundry/dry cleaning cooperative Fabricare Choice Distributors Group, Inc. (Fabricare) participated at the hearing and filed a prehearing brief. Previously, on November 27, 2002, CHC Industries, Inc., M&B, and United Wire, all then domestic producers of SWG hangers, filed a petition pursuant to Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974 (section 421) alleging that SWG hanger imports from China were being imported into the United States in such increased quantities or under such conditions as to cause or threaten to cause market disruption to domestic producers of SWG hangers. On January 27, 2003, the Commission announced an affirmative determination of market disruption by Chinese subject imports. Accordingly, on February 5, 2003, the Commission voted to recommend a remedy consisting of an additional duty on imports of SWG hangers from China for a three-year period, beginning at 25 percent ad valorem in the first year, decreasing to 20 percent ad valorem in the second year, and ending at 15 percent ad valorem in the third year. On April 25, 2003, the President determined that import relief for the U.S. wire hanger industry was not in the national economic interest of the United States and declined to impose any duties.