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U.S. PURCHASERS’ QUESTIONNAIRE
WOODEN BEDROOM FURNITURE FROM CHINA
This questionnaire must be received by the Commission by September 6, 2016
See last page for filing instructions.
The information called for in this questionnaire is for use by the United States International Trade Commission in
connection with its review of the antidumping duty order concerning wooden bedroom furniture from China (Inv. No.
731‐TA‐1058 (Second Review)). The information requested in the questionnaire is requested under the authority of the
Tariff Act of 1930, title VII. This report is mandatory and failure to reply as directed can result in a subpoena or other
order to compel the submission of records or information in your possession (19 U.S.C. § 1333(a)). Further information
on this questionnaire can be obtained from John Benedetto (202‐205‐3270, john.benedetto@usitc.gov).
Name of firm
Address
City
State
Zip Code
Website
Has your firm purchased wooden bedroom furniture (as defined on the next page) from any source (domestic or
foreign) at any time since January 1, 2010?
NO
(Sign the certification below and promptly return only this page of the questionnaire to the Commission)
YES
(Complete all parts of the questionnaire, and return the entire questionnaire to the Commission)
Return questionnaire via the Commission Drop Box by clicking on the following link:
https://dropbox.usitc.gov/oinv/. (PIN: WBF)
CERTIFICATION
I certify that the information herein supplied in response to this questionnaire is complete and correct to the best of my
knowledge and belief and understand that the information submitted is subject to audit and verification by the Commission. By
means of this certification I also grant consent for the Commission, and its employees and contract personnel, to use the
information provided in this questionnaire and throughout this proceeding in any other import‐injury proceedings or reviews
conducted by the Commission on the same or similar merchandise.
I, the undersigned, acknowledge that information submitted in response to this request for information and throughout this
investigation or other proceeding may be disclosed to and used: (i) by the Commission, its employees and Offices, and contract
personnel (a) for developing or maintaining the records of this or a related proceeding, or (b) in internal investigations, audits,
reviews, and evaluations relating to the programs, personnel, and operations of the Commission including under 5 U.S.C.
Appendix 3; or (ii) by U.S. government employees and contract personnel, solely for cybersecurity purposes. I understand that all
contract personnel will sign appropriate nondisclosure agreements.
Name of Authorized Official Title of Authorized Official
Phone:
Date
Signature
Email address
Fax
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PART I.—GENERAL INFORMATION
Background. On January 4, 2005, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) issued an antidumping
duty order on imports of wooden bedroom furniture from China. On November 2, 2015, the
Commission instituted a review pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1675(c))
(the Act) to determine whether revocation of the order would be likely to lead to continuation or
recurrence of material injury to the domestic industry within a reasonably foreseeable time. If both the
Commission and Commerce make an affirmative determination, the order will remain in place. If either
the Commission or Commerce makes a negative determination, Commerce will revoke the order.
Questionnaires and other information pertinent to this proceeding are available at
https://www.usitc.gov/investigations/701731/2015/wooden_bedroom_furniture_china/second_review_full.htm.
Wooden bedroom furniture covered by this investigation is generally, but not exclusively, designed,
manufactured, and offered for sale in coordinated groups, or bedrooms, in which all of the individual
pieces are of approximately the same style and approximately the same material and/or finish. The
subject merchandise is made substantially of wood products, including both solid wood and also
engineered wood products made from wood particles, fibers, or other wooden materials such as
plywood, strand board, particle board, and fiberboard, with or without wood veneers, wood overlays, or
laminates, with or without non‐wood components or trim such as metal, marble, leather, glass, plastic,
or other resins, and whether or not assembled, completed, or finished.
The subject merchandise includes the following items: (1) Wooden beds such as loft beds, bunk beds,
and other beds; (2) wooden headboards for beds (whether stand‐alone or attached to side rails),
wooden footboards for beds, wooden side rails for beds, and wooden canopies for beds; (3) night
tables, night stands, dressers, commodes, bureaus, mule chests, gentlemen's chests, bachelor's chests,
lingerie chests, wardrobes, vanities, chessers, chifforobes, and wardrobe‐type cabinets; (4) dressers with
framed glass mirrors that are attached to, incorporated in, sit on, or hang over the dresser; (5) chests‐
on‐chests,1 highboys,2 lowboys,3 chests of drawers,4 chests,5 door chests,6 chiffoniers,7 hutches,8 and
armoires;9 (6) desks, computer stands, filing cabinets, book cases, or writing tables that are attached to
1
A chest‐on‐chest is typically a tall chest‐of‐drawers in two or more sections (or appearing to be in two or more
sections), with one or two sections mounted (or appearing to be mounted) on a slightly larger chest; also known as
a tallboy.
2
A highboy is typically a tall chest of drawers usually composed of a base and a top section with drawers, and
supported on four legs or a small chest (often 15 inches or more in height).
3
A lowboy is typically a short chest of drawers, not more than four feet high, normally set on short legs.
4
A chest of drawers is typically a case containing drawers for storing clothing.
5
A chest is typically a case piece taller than it is wide featuring a series of drawers and with or without one or
more doors for storing clothing. The piece can either include drawers or be designed as a large box incorporating a
lid.
6
A door chest is typically a chest with hinged doors to store clothing, whether or not containing drawers. The
piece may also include shelves for televisions and other entertainment electronics.
7
A chiffonier is typically a tall and narrow chest of drawers normally used for storing undergarments and
lingerie, often with mirror(s) attached.
8
A hutch is typically an open case of furniture with shelves that typically sits on another piece of furniture and
provides storage for clothes.
9
An armoire is typically a tall cabinet or wardrobe (typically 50 inches or taller), with doors, and with one or
more drawers (either exterior below or above the doors or interior behind the doors), shelves, and/or garment
rods or other apparatus for storing clothes. Bedroom armoires may also be used to hold television receivers and/or
other audio‐visual entertainment systems.
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or incorporated in the subject merchandise; and (7) other bedroom furniture consistent with the above
list.
The scope of the order excludes the following items: (1) Seats, chairs, benches, couches, sofas, sofa
beds, stools, and other seating furniture; (2) mattresses, mattress supports (including box springs),
infant cribs, water beds, and futon frames; (3) office furniture, such as desks, stand‐up desks, computer
cabinets, filing cabinets, credenzas, and bookcases; (4) dining room or kitchen furniture such as dining
tables, chairs, servers, sideboards, buffets, corner cabinets, china cabinets, and china hutches; (5) other
non‐bedroom furniture, such as television cabinets, cocktail tables, end tables, occasional tables, wall
systems, book cases, and entertainment systems; (6) bedroom furniture made primarily of wicker, cane,
osier, bamboo or rattan; (7) side rails for beds made of metal if sold separately from the headboard and
footboard; (8) bedroom furniture in which bentwood parts predominate;10 (9) jewelry armories;11 (10)
cheval mirrors;12 (11) certain metal parts;13 (12) mirrors that do not attach to, incorporate in, sit on, or
hang over a dresser if they are not designed and marketed to be sold in conjunction with a dresser as
part of a dresser‐mirror set; (13) upholstered beds;14 and (14) toy boxes.15 Also excluded from the scope
10
As used herein, bentwood means solid wood made pliable. Bentwood is wood that is brought to a curved
shape by bending it while made pliable with moist heat or other agency and then set by cooling or drying. See
CBP's Headquarters Ruling Letter 043859, dated May 17, 1976.
11
Any armoire, cabinet or other accent item for the purpose of storing jewelry, not to exceed 24 inches in
width, 18 inches in depth, and 49 inches in height, including a minimum of 5 lined drawers lined with felt or felt‐
like material, at least one side door or one front door (whether or not the door is lined with felt or felt‐like
material), with necklace hangers, and a flip‐top lid with inset mirror. See Issues and Decision Memorandum from
Laurel LaCivita to Laurie Parkhill, Office Director, concerning “Jewelry Armoires and Cheval Mirrors in the
Antidumping Duty Investigation of Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the People's Republic of China,” dated August
31, 2004. See also Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of China: Final Changed Circumstances
Review, and Determination To Revoke Order in Part, 71 FR 38621 (July 7, 2006).
12
Cheval mirrors are any framed, tiltable mirror with a height in excess of 50 inches that is mounted on a floor‐
standing, hinged base. Additionally, the scope of the order excludes combination cheval mirror/jewelry cabinets.
The excluded merchandise is an integrated piece consisting of a cheval mirror, i.e., a framed tiltable mirror with a
height in excess of 50 inches, mounted on a floor‐standing, hinged base, the cheval mirror serving as a door to a
cabinet back that is integral to the structure of the mirror and which constitutes a jewelry cabinet line with fabric,
having necklace and bracelet hooks, mountings for rings and shelves, with or without a working lock and key to
secure the contents of the jewelry cabinet back to the cheval mirror, and no drawers anywhere on the integrated
piece. The fully assembled piece must be at least 50 inches in height, 14.5 inches in width, and 3 inches in depth.
See Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of China: Final Changed Circumstances Review and
Determination To Revoke Order in Part, 72 FR 948 (January 9, 2007).
13
Metal furniture parts and unfinished furniture parts made of wood products (as defined above) that are not
otherwise specifically named in this scope (i.e., wooden headboards for beds, wooden footboards for beds,
wooden side rails for beds, and wooden canopies for beds) and that do not possess the essential character of
wooden bedroom furniture in an unassembled, incomplete, or unfinished form. Such parts are usually classified
under HTSUS subheadings 9403.90.7005, 9403.90.7010, or 9403.90.7080.
14
Upholstered beds that are completely upholstered, i.e., containing filling material and completely covered in
sewn genuine leather, synthetic leather, or natural or synthetic decorative fabric. To be excluded, the entire bed
(headboards, footboards, and side rails) must be upholstered except for bed feet, which may be of wood, metal, or
any other material and which are no more than nine inches in height from the floor. See Wooden Bedroom
Furniture from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review and Determination to
Revoke Order in Part, 72 FR 7013 (February 14, 2007).
15
To be excluded the toy box must: (1) Be wider than it is tall; (2) have dimensions within 16 inches to 27
inches in height, 15 inches to 18 inches in depth, and 21 inches to 30 inches in width; (3) have a hinged lid that
encompasses the entire top of the box; (4) not incorporate any doors or drawers; (5) have slow‐closing safety
hinges; (6) have air vents; (7) have no locking mechanism; and (8) comply with American Society for Testing and
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are certain enclosable wall bed units, also referred to as murphy beds, which are composed of the
following three major sections: (1) A metal wall frame, which attaches to the wall and uses coils or
pistons to support the metal mattress frame; (2) a metal frame, which has euro slats for supporting a
mattress and two legs that pivot; and (3) wood panels, which attach to the metal wall frame and/or the
metal mattress frame to form a cabinet to enclose the wall bed when not in use. Excluded enclosable
wall bed units are imported in ready‐to‐assemble format with all parts necessary for assembly.
Enclosable wall bed units do not include a mattress. Wood panels of enclosable wall bed units, when
imported separately, remain subject to the order.
Also excluded from the scope are certain shoe cabinets 31.5‐33.5 inches wide by 15.5‐17.5 inches deep
by 34.5‐36.5 inches high. They are designed strictly to store shoes, which are intended to be aligned in
rows perpendicular to the wall along which the cabinet is positioned. Shoe cabinets do not have
drawers, rods, or other indicia for the storage of clothing other than shoes. The cabinets are not
designed, manufactured, or offered for sale in coordinated groups or sets and are made substantially of
wood, have two to four shelves inside them, and are covered by doors. The doors often have blinds that
are designed to allow air circulation and release of bad odors. The doors themselves may be made of
wood or glass. The depth of the shelves does not exceed 14 inches. Each shoe cabinet has doors,
adjustable shelving, and ventilation holes.
Also excluded from the scope are certain bed bases consisting of: (1) A wooden box frame, (2) three
wooden cross beams and one perpendicular center wooden support beam, and (3) wooden slats over
the beams. These bed bases are constructed without inner springs and/or coils and do not include a
headboard, footboard, side rails, or mattress. The bed bases are imported unassembled.
Imports of subject merchandise are classified under subheadings 9403.50.9042 and 9403.50.9045 of the
HTSUS as “wooden . . . beds” and under subheading 9403.50.9080 of the HTSUS as “other . . . wooden
furniture of a kind used in the bedroom.” In addition, wooden headboards for beds, wooden footboards
for beds, wooden side rails for beds, and wooden canopies for beds may also be entered under
subheading 9403.50.9042 or 9403.50.9045 of the HTSUS as “parts of wood.” Subject merchandise may
also be entered under subheadings 9403.50.9041, 9403.60.8081, 9403.20.0018, or 9403.90.8041.
Further, framed glass mirrors may be entered under subheading 7009.92.1000 or 7009.92.5000 of the
HTSUS as “glass mirrors . . . framed.” The order covers all wooden bedroom furniture meeting the above
description, regardless of tariff classification. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope of this proceeding is
dispositive.
Reporting of information.‐‐ If information is not readily available from your records in exactly the form
requested, furnish carefully prepared estimates. If your firm is completing more than one questionnaire
in connection with this proceeding (i.e., a producer, importer, and/or purchaser questionnaire), you
need not respond to duplicated questions in the questionnaires.
Materials (“ASTM”) standard F963‐03. Toy boxes are boxes generally designed for the purpose of storing children's
items such as toys, books, and playthings. See Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the People's Republic of China:
Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review and Determination to Revoke Order in Part, 74 FR 8506 (February
25, 2009). Further, as determined in the scope ruling memorandum “Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the
People's Republic of China: Scope Ruling on a White Toy Box,” dated July 6, 2009, the dimensional ranges used to
identify the toy boxes that are excluded from the wooden bedroom furniture order apply to the box itself rather
than the lid.
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Confidentiality.‐‐The commercial and financial data furnished in response to this questionnaire that
reveal the individual operations of your firm will be treated as confidential by the Commission to the
extent that such data are not otherwise available to the public and will not be disclosed except as may
be required by law (see 19 U.S.C. § 1677f). Such confidential information will not be published in a
manner that will reveal the individual operations of your firm; however, general characterizations of
numerical business proprietary information (such as discussion of trends) will be treated as confidential
business information only at the request of the submitter for good cause shown.
Verification.‐‐The information submitted in this questionnaire is subject to audit and verification by the
Commission. To facilitate possible verification of data, please keep all of your files, worksheets, and
supporting documents used in the preparation of the questionnaire response. Please also retain a copy
of the final document that you submit.
Release of information.‐‐The information provided by your firm in response to this questionnaire, as
well as any other business proprietary information submitted by your firm to the Commission in
connection with this proceeding, may become subject to, and released under, the administrative
protective order provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1677f) and section 207.7 of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR § 207.7). This means that certain lawyers and
other authorized individuals may temporarily be given access to the information for use in connection
with this proceeding or other import‐injury proceedings conducted by the Commission on the same or
similar merchandise; those individuals would be subject to severe penalties if the information were
divulged to unauthorized individuals.
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I‐2.
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OMB statistics.‐‐Please report the actual number of hours required and the cost to your firm of
completing this questionnaire.
Hours
Dollars
The questions in this questionnaire have been reviewed with market participants to ensure that
issues of concern are adequately addressed and that data requests are sufficient, meaningful,
and as limited as possible. Public reporting burden for this questionnaire is estimated to average
40 hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering data, and
completing and reviewing the questionnaire.
We welcome comments regarding the accuracy of this burden estimate, suggestions for
reducing the burden, and any suggestions for improving this questionnaire. Please attach such
comments to your response or send to the Office of Investigations, USITC, 500 E St. SW,
Washington, DC 20436.
Establishments covered.‐‐Provide the name and address of establishment(s) covered by this
questionnaire, if different from that listed on the cover page. Firms operating more than one
establishment should combine the data for all establishments into a single report.
“Establishment”‐‐Each facility of a firm involved in the purchase of wooden bedroom furniture,
including auxiliary facilities operated in conjunction with (whether or not physically separate
from) such facilities.
I‐3.
Ownership.‐‐Is your firm owned, in whole or in part, by any other firm?
No
Yes‐‐List the following information.
Extent of ownership
Firm name
Address
(percent)
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Related SUBJECT importers/exporters.‐‐Does your firm have any related firms, either domestic
or foreign, that import wooden bedroom furniture from China into the United States or that
export wooden bedroom furniture from China to the United States?
No
Yes‐‐List the following information.
Firm name
Address
Affiliation
Related NONSUBJECT importers/exporters.‐‐Does your firm have any related firms, either
domestic or foreign, that import wooden bedroom furniture from countries other than China
into the United States or that export wooden bedroom furniture from countries other than
China to the United States?
No
Yes‐‐List the following information.
Firm name and country
Address
Affiliation
Related producers.‐‐Does your firm have any related firms, either domestic or foreign, that
produce wooden bedroom furniture?
No
Yes‐‐List the following information.
Firm name and country
Address
Affiliation
Business plan.‐‐Does your company or any related firm have a business plan or any internal
documents that describe, discuss, or analyze expected market conditions for wooden bedroom
furniture?
No
If yes, please provide these documents. If you are not providing the
Yes requested documents, please explain why not.
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PART II.‐‐PURCHASES
Contact information.‐‐Please identify the responsible individual and the manner by which Commission
staff may contact that individual regarding the confidential information submitted in this questionnaire.
Name
Title
Email
Telephone
Fax
II‐1. Purchases.—
Estimate the quantity of your firm’s purchases of wooden bedroom furniture in 2015 that was
produced in each of the specified countries. (Do not include imports for which your firm was
the importer of record; such imports should be reported in your U.S. importer’s questionnaire.)
Wooden bedroom furniture produced in:
United States
pieces
China (by firms other than Markor Tianjin and Lacquer Craft)
pieces
China (by Markor Tianjin and/or Lacquer Craft)
pieces
Vietnam
pieces
All other countries:1
pieces
Total
1
Please identify these countries:
Any notes or explanations:
Quantity of 2015
purchases
!Undefined pieces
Bookmark, N
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Changes in purchasing patterns.‐‐Please indicate how the shares of your firm’s purchases of
wooden bedroom furniture from different sources have changed since January 1, 2010.
Source of Did not
purchases purchase Decreased Increased Constant Fluctuated
Explanation for trend
United
States
China
subject1
Other
China2
Vietnam
All other
countries
Sources
unknown
1
Produced in China by firms other than Markor Tianjin and Lacquer Craft.
Produced in China by Markor Tianjin or Lacquer Craft.
2
II‐3.
Purchases from one country only.‐‐If your firm has purchased wooden bedroom furniture from
only one country, please explain the reasons for doing so.
II‐4.
Supplier identification.‐‐ Please list your firm’s FIVE largest suppliers for wooden bedroom
furniture since January 1, 2010. Also, provide the share of the quantity of your firm’s total
purchases of wooden bedroom furniture that each of these suppliers accounted for in 2015.
No.
Supplier’s name
City and state
Share of quantity of
2015 purchases
1
%
2
%
3
%
4
%
5
%
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PART III.‐‐ MARKET CHARACTERISTICS AND PURCHASING PRACTICES
III‐1. Firm type.‐‐Which of the following best describes your firm as a purchaser of wooden bedroom
furniture (check all that apply)?
Hospitality or
Retailer
Distributor
Other
Describe other
institutional
If your firm is a distributor of wooden bedroom furniture, please answer questions III‐2 and III‐3.
III‐2. Competition for sales.‐‐Do you compete for sales to your customers with the manufacturers or
importers from which you purchase wooden bedroom furniture?
No
Yes If yes, please describe.
III‐3.
Types of customers.‐‐What are the major types of consumers to which you sell wooden
bedroom furniture?
III‐4.
Brand names.—
(a) If your firm is a distributor or reseller of wooden bedroom furniture, does your firm sell
wooden bedroom furniture under brand names?
No
Yes
Please indicate the specific brands
(b) How often are brand names important in your firm’s sales of wooden bedroom furniture?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Never
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Solid wood vs. other materials. How often is wooden bedroom furniture made of solid wood
interchangeable with wooden bedroom furniture made of other materials, e.g., particle board?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Never
Please compare wooden bedroom furniture made of solid wood and that made
of other materials in terms of consumer perception, price, and demand.
III‐6.
Substitutes.—
(a)
Can other products be substituted for wooden bedroom furniture?
No
Yes‐‐Please fill out the table.
End use in which this
substitute is used
Substitute
Have changes in the price of this substitute
affected the price for wooden bedroom
furniture?
No Yes
Explanation
1.
2.
3.
(b)
Have there been any changes in the number or types of products that can be
substituted for wooden bedroom furniture since January 1, 2010? Do you anticipate
any future changes?
Changes in substitutes No Yes
Changes since January
1, 2010
Anticipated changes
Explain
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Demand trends.‐‐ Indicate how demand within the United States and outside of the United
States (if known) for wooden bedroom furniture has changed since January 1, 2010, and how
you anticipate demand will change in the future. Explain any trends and describe the principal
factors that have affected, and that you anticipate will affect, these changes in demand.
Market
Fluctuate
Overall
No
Overall
with no
increase change decrease clear trend
Explanation and factors
Demand since January 1, 2010
Within
the United
States
Outside
the United
States
Anticipated future demand
III‐8.
Within
the United
States
Outside
the United
States
Market studies.‐‐Please provide as a separate attachment to this request any studies, surveys,
etc. that you are aware of that quantify and/or otherwise discuss wooden bedroom furniture
supply (including production capacity and capacity utilization) and demand in (1) the United
States, (2) each of the other major producing/consuming countries, including China, and (3) the
world as a whole. Of particular interest is such data from 2010 to the present and forecasts for
the future.
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Importance of purchasing domestic product.‐‐Please fill out the table below, estimating the
percentage of your firm’s total 2015 purchases of wooden bedroom furniture that required
wooden bedroom furniture produced in the United States.
Purchases that did not require domestic product
Purchases that were required by law or regulation to be domestic
product (e.g., government purchases under “Buy American” provisions)
Purchases that were not required by law or regulation, but were
required by your customers to be domestic product
Purchases that were required to be domestic product for other reasons
(explain: )
Total (should sum to 100.0%)
Estimated percentage of
your firm’s total 2015
purchases of wooden
bedroom furniture
%
%
%
%
!Undefined %
Bookmark,
N
III‐10. Conditions of competition.‐‐
(a) Is the wooden bedroom furniture market subject to business cycles (other than general
economy‐wide conditions) and/or other conditions of competition distinctive to wooden
bedroom furniture?
Check all that apply.
Please describe.
No
Skip to question III‐11.
Yes‐Business cycles (e.g.
seasonal business)
Yes‐Other distinctive
conditions of competition
(b) If yes, have there been any changes in the business cycles or conditions of competition for
wooden bedroom furniture since January 1, 2010?
No
Yes
If yes, describe.
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III‐11. Decisions based on producer and country‐of‐origin.‐‐How often does your firm, and if you
know, do your customers, make purchasing decisions involving wooden bedroom furniture
based on its producer or country of origin?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Never
If at least sometimes, explain.
Decision based on producer
Your firm
Your
customers
Decision based on country of origin
Your firm
Your
customers
III‐12. Availability of supply.‐‐Has the availability of wooden bedroom furniture in the U.S. market
changed since January 1, 2010? Do you anticipate any future changes?
Availability in the U.S.
Please explain, noting the countries and reasons for the
market
No Yes changes.
Changes since January 1, 2010:
U.S.‐produced product
Subject imports
Nonsubject imports
U.S.‐produced product
Subject imports
Nonsubject imports
Anticipated changes:
III‐13. Supply constraints.‐‐Has any firm refused, declined, or been unable to supply your firm with
wooden bedroom furniture since January 1, 2010 (examples include placing customers on
allocation or “controlled order entry,” declining to accept new customers or renew existing
customers, delivering less than the quantity promised, been unable to meet timely shipment
commitments, etc.)?
No
Yes
If yes, please describe.
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III‐14. Purchasing frequency.‐‐
(a)
How frequently do you make purchases of wooden bedroom furniture (check one)?
Daily Weekly
(b)
Monthly
Quarterly Annually
Other If other, specify
Do you expect this purchasing frequency to change in the next two years?
No
Yes If yes, explain.
III‐15. Number of suppliers contacted.‐‐How many suppliers do you generally contact before making a
purchase? Between and firms.
III‐16. Supplier negotiations.‐‐Do your purchases of wooden bedroom furniture usually involve
negotiations between supplier and purchaser?
No
If yes, explain the factors you generally negotiate and note whether
Yes your firm quotes competing prices during negotiations.
III‐17. Change in suppliers.‐‐ Has your firm changed suppliers since January 1, 2010?
No
If yes, please list the supplier(s), whether the firm was added or
Yes dropped, and the reasons for the change.
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III‐18. New suppliers.‐‐
(a)
Are you aware of any new suppliers, either foreign or domestic, that have entered the
market since January 1, 2010?
No
Yes If yes, please identify the firms.
(b)
Do you expect new wooden bedroom furniture suppliers to enter the U.S. market?
No
Yes If yes, please explain.
III‐19. Supplier qualification.‐‐Do you require your suppliers to be or to become certified or qualified
to sell wooden bedroom furniture to your firm?
If yes, provide the following information.
The number of days to qualify a new supplier.
A general description of the certification or qualification process. Also, a brief
description of the factors that you consider when qualifying a new supplier (e.g., quality
of product, reliability of supplier, etc.).
No
Yes
Number
of days Process and factors
III‐20. Failure to certify.‐‐Since January 1, 2010, have any domestic or foreign producers failed in their
attempts to certify or qualify their wooden bedroom furniture with your firm or have any
producers lost their approved status?
No
Yes
If yes, please identify these firms, the countries where they are located, and
the reasons why they failed the certification/qualification.
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III‐21. Major purchasing factors.‐‐ Please list, in order of their importance, the three major factors
your firm considers in deciding from whom to purchase wooden bedroom furniture (examples
include availability, extension of credit, contracts, price, quality, range of supplier’s product line,
traditional supplier, etc.).
1.
2.
3.
Please list any other factors that are very important in your purchase decisions:
III‐22. Purchasing factors.‐‐Please rate the importance of the following factors in your firm’s
purchasing decisions for wooden bedroom furniture.
Factor
Very
important
Somewhat
important
Not
important
Availability
Delivery terms
Delivery time
Discounts offered
Extension of credit
Minimum quantity requirements
Packaging
Price
Product consistency
Product range
Quality exceeds industry standards
Quality meets industry standards
Reliability of supply
Technical support/service
U.S. transportation costs
III‐23. Quality characteristics.‐‐What characteristics does your firm consider when determining the
quality of wooden bedroom furniture?
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III‐24. Frequency of decisions based on price.‐‐How often does your firm purchase the wooden
bedroom furniture that is offered at the lowest price?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Never
III‐25. Price leaders.‐‐A price leader is defined as (1) one or more firms that initiate a price change,
either upward or downward, that is followed by other firms, or (2) one or more firms that have a
significant impact on prices. A price leader is not necessarily the lowest‐priced supplier.
Please list the names of any firms you considered price leaders in the wooden bedroom
furniture market since January 1, 2010.
Firm(s)
Describe how the firm(s) exhibited price leadership
III‐26. Changes in U.S. industry.‐‐
(a)
Please identify and discuss any improvements/changes in the U.S. wooden bedroom
furniture industry since January 1, 2010 and explain the factors, including the order
under review, that were responsible for each improvement/change.
(b)
Please discuss any improvements/changes that you anticipate in the future in the U.S.
wooden bedroom furniture industry. Identify the time period and causes for these
improvements/changes.
III‐27. Effect of revocation.‐‐What do you think will be the likely effects of any revocation of the
antidumping duty order for imports of wooden bedroom furniture from China? As appropriate,
please discuss any potential effects of revocation of the antidumping duty order on (1) the
future activities of your firm and (2) the U.S. market as a whole. Please note the future time
period to which you are referring.
Activities of your firm
Entire U.S. market
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III‐28. Tiers.—Are there different tiers (based on consumer perception or quality) within the U.S.
market for wooden bedroom furniture?
No
Yes If yes, please explain.
III‐29. Purchases of wooden bedroom furniture as pieces or suites.
(a) Does your firm usually purchase wooden bedroom furniture as pieces or suites?
Pieces
Suites
Sometimes as pieces and sometimes as suites
(b) Are the prices that your firm pays its suppliers of wooden bedroom furniture negotiated on
a piece‐by‐piece or a suite‐by‐suite basis?
Please explain.
III‐30. Suites.‐‐ If your firm purchases wooden bedroom furniture as a suite, are all the pieces of the
suites produced in the same country (e.g., all pieces produced in the United States or all pieces
produced in China)?
Yes No
III‐31. Wooden bedroom furniture from Vietnam.—How have imports of wooden bedroom furniture
from Vietnam affected the U.S. market for wooden bedroom furniture since January 1, 2010?
Please explain.
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PART IV.‐‐ PRODUCT COMPARISIONS
IV‐1. Country knowledge.‐‐Please indicate the countries of origin for wooden bedroom furniture for
which your firm has actual marketing/pricing knowledge.
United
States
China
Other
countries
Other countries (specify)
Vietnam
IV‐2.
Interchangeability.‐‐Is wooden bedroom furniture produced in the United States and in other
countries interchangeable (i.e., can they physically be used in the same applications)?
Please indicate A, F, S, N, or 0 in the table below:
A = the products from a specified country‐pair are always interchangeable
F = the products are frequently interchangeable
S = the products are sometimes interchangeable
N = the products are never interchangeable
0 = no familiarity with products from a specified country‐pair
Country‐pair
China
Vietnam
Other countries
United States
China
Vietnam
For any country‐pair producing wooden bedroom furniture which is sometimes or never
interchangeable, please identify the country‐pair and explain the factors that limit or preclude
interchangeable use:
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Factors other than price.‐‐Are differences other than price (e.g., quality, availability,
transportation network, product range, technical support, etc.) between wooden bedroom
furniture produced in the United States and in other countries a significant factor in your firm’s
purchases of the products?
Please indicate A, F, S, N, or 0 in the table below:
A = such differences are always significant
F = such differences are frequently significant
S = such differences are sometimes significant
N = such differences are never significant
0 = no familiarity with products from a specified country‐pair
Country‐pair
China
Vietnam
Other countries
United States
China
Vietnam
For any country‐pair for which factors other than price always or frequently are a significant
factor in your firm’s purchases of wooden bedroom furniture, identify the country‐pair and
report the advantages or disadvantages imparted by such factors:
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Country preferences.‐‐Do you or your customers ever specifically order wooden bedroom
furniture from one country in particular over other possible sources of supply?
No
Yes
If yes, identify the countries and explain.
IV‐5.
IV‐6.
Availability of merchandise.‐‐Are certain grades/types/sizes of wooden bedroom furniture only
available from certain country sources?
No
Yes
Choice of product not based on price.‐‐If you purchased wooden bedroom furniture from one
source although a comparable product was available from another country source at a lower
price, please explain your reasons for doing so (please specify by country).
If yes, please identify the countries and the grade/type/size.
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Factor country comparisons.‐‐For the factors listed below, please rate how wooden bedroom
furniture produced in each country you identified in your response to the first question in Part
IV compares with wooden bedroom furniture produced in each of the other countries you
identified.
Superior
Comparable
Inferior
Superior
Comparable
Inferior
Superior
Comparable
Inferior
If you are unfamiliar with the product from a particular country, please leave the boxes for those
country comparisons blank.
Product from
Product from
Product from
United States
United States
United States
compared to
compared to
compared to
product from
product from
product from
China
Vietnam
All other countries
Availability
Delivery terms
Delivery time
Discounts offered
Extension of credit
Minimum quantity requirements
Packaging
Price1
Product consistency
Product range
Quality exceeds industry standards
Quality meets industry standards
Reliability of supply
Technical support/service
U.S. transportation costs1
Factor
1
A rating of superior on price and U.S. transportation costs indicates that the first country generally has lower
prices/U.S. transportation costs than the second country.
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Superior
Comparable
Inferior
Superior
Comparable
Inferior
Superior
Comparable
Inferior
IV‐7. Continued.
If you are unfamiliar with the product from a particular country, please leave the boxes for those
country comparisons blank.
Product from
China
Product from
Product from
China compared to Vietnam compared
compared to
product from
product from
to product from
Vietnam
All other countries All other countries
Availability
Delivery terms
Delivery time
Discounts offered
Extension of credit
Minimum quantity requirements
Packaging
Price1
Product consistency
Product range
Quality exceeds industry standards
Quality meets industry standards
Reliability of supply
Technical support/service
U.S. transportation costs1
Factor
1
A rating of superior on price and U.S. transportation costs indicates that the first country generally has lower
prices/U.S. transportation costs than the second country.
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Minimum quality.‐‐How often does wooden bedroom furniture from the following countries
meet minimum quality specifications for your uses or your customers’ uses?
Source
IV‐9.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely or
never
Don’t
know
United States
China
Vietnam
Other:
Change in price.‐‐
(a)
Since January 1, 2010, has there been a change in the price of wooden bedroom
furniture? If so, has the price of U.S.‐produced wooden bedroom furniture changed
more or less than the price of imported wooden bedroom furniture from China?
No change in price.
Prices have changed by the same amount.
Price of U.S.‐produced wooden bedroom furniture has changed relative to
the price of wooden bedroom furniture from China
(b)
If the price of U.S.‐produced wooden bedroom furniture has changed relative to the
price of wooden bedroom furniture from China, the price of U.S.‐produced wooden
bedroom furniture is now relatively
Higher
Lower
than those from China
IV‐10 If your answer to any of the preceding questions in Part IV would differ with respect to wooden
bedroom furniture from China produced by Markor and Lacquer Craft (as opposed to wooden
furniture produced in China by firms that are subject to the antidumping duty order), explain.
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IV‐11. Other explanations.‐‐If your firm would like to further explain a response to a question that did
not provide a narrative response box, please note the question number and the explanation in
the space provided below.
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HOW TO FILE YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE
This questionnaire is available as a “fillable” form in MS Word format on the
Commission’s website at:
https://www.usitc.gov/investigations/701731/2015/wooden_bedroom_furniture_china/second_review_full.htm
Please do not attempt to modify the format or permissions of the questionnaire
document. Please submit the completed questionnaire using one of the methods noted
below. If your firm is unable to complete the MS Word questionnaire or cannot use one
of the electronic methods of submission, please contact the Commission for further
instructions.
• Upload via Secure Drop Box.—Upload the MS Word questionnaire along with a scanned copy of the
signed certification page (page 1) through the Commission’s secure upload facility:
Web address: https://dropbox.usitc.gov/oinv/
Pin: WBF
• E‐mail.—E‐mail the MS Word questionnaire to john.benedetto@usitc.gov; include a scanned copy of
the signed certification page (page 1). Submitters are strongly encouraged to encrypt nonpublic
documents that are electronically transmitted to the Commission to protect your sensitive information
from unauthorized disclosure. The USITC secure drop‐box system and the Electronic Document
Information System (EDIS) use Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140‐2 cryptographic
algorithms to encrypt data in transit. Submitting your nonpublic documents by a means that does not
use these encryption algorithms (such as by email) may subject your firm’s nonpublic information to
unauthorized disclosure during transmission. If you choose a non‐encrypted method of electronic
transmission, the Commission warns you that the risk of such possible unauthorized disclosure is
assumed by you and not by the Commission.
If your firm does not purchase this product, please fill out page 1, print, sign, and submit a scanned
copy to the Commission.
Parties to this proceeding.—If your firm is a party to this proceeding, it is required to serve a copy of the
completed questionnaire on parties to the proceeding that are subject to administrative protective
order (see 19 CFR § 207.7). A list of such parties may be obtained from the Commission’s Secretary (202‐
205‐1803). A certificate of service must accompany the completed questionnaire you submit (see 19 CFR
§ 207.7). Service of the questionnaire must be made in paper form.
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