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Ref : EIC 111/3/10/1

7 April 2011

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 208/2011

US : Countervailing Action against Multilayered Wood Flooring from the Mainland of China : Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) announced in the Federal Register (FR) notice of 6 April 2011 the preliminary affirmative determination that countervailable subsidies were being provided to producers and exporters of multilayered wood flooring from the Mainland of China. The countervailing duty rate was found to be in the range of 0.00% - 27.01%. The final countervailing duty determination will be issued no later than 6 June 2011. The FR notice is available at: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2011/pdf/2011-8173.pdf. On 17 December 2010, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) issued its preliminary affirmative determination that there is a reasonable indication that an industry in the US is materially injured by reason of imports from the Mainland of China of multilayered wood flooring.

2. If the final determination of the DoC is affirmative, the ITC will make its final determination on whether an industry in the US is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by reasons of imports of multilayered wood flooring from the Mainland of China within 45 days after the DoC's final determination.

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3. For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5682.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Carmen CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry