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Last April, the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association, a group of U.S. cabinet producers including MasterBrand, won one of the largest anti-dumping cases ever brought against China.
The ITC unanimously found injury to the U.S. cabinet industry, and Commerce imposed duties of 70 percent on Chinese imports of cabinets and vanities.
The year-long case had concluded.
But it was only a matter of time before a new problem would materialize.
Some importers are now evading duties by transshipping cabinets through Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia, according to MasterBrand. There has been a massive surge in illegal transshipments to avoid the AD/CVD duties, said Wiley Rein s Tim Brightbill, an attorney working for MasterBrand. We have seen increases of cabinet imports from countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia of 1000 percent or more.
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