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1A chest-on-chest is typically a tall chest-ofdrawers 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. 

2A 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). 

3A lowboy is typically a short chest of drawers, 

not more than four feet high, normally set on short 

legs. 

4A chest of drawers is typically a case containing 

drawers for storing clothing. 

5A 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. 

6A 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. 

7A chiffonier is typically a tall and narrow chest 

of drawers normally used for storing undergarments 

and lingerie, often with mirror(s) attached. 

8A hutch is typically an open case of furniture 

with shelves that typically sits on another piece of 

furniture and provides storage for clothes. 

9An 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 audiovisual entertainment systems. 

10As 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 Customs’ Headquarters’ 

Ruling Letter 043859, dated May 17, 1976. 

11Any armoire, cabinet or other accent item for 

the purpose of storing jewelry, not to exceed 24‘‘ 

in width, 18‘‘ in depth, and 49‘‘ in height, including 

a minimum of 5 lined drawers lined with felt or 

felt-like material, at least one side 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: Notice of Final Results of Changed 

Circumstances Review and Revocation in Part, 71 

FR 38621 (July 7, 2006). 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–890] 

Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 

People’s Republic of China: Notice of 

Initiation and Preliminary Results of 

Changed Circumstances Review, and 

Intent to Revoke Order in Part 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 9, 2009. 

SUMMARY: On November 25, 2008, the 

Department of Commerce (the 

‘‘Department’’) received a request on 

behalf of petitioners, the American 

Furniture Manufacturers Committee for 

Legal Trade and its individual members 

(the ‘‘AFMC’’ or ‘‘petitioners’’), for a 

changed circumstances review and a 

request to revoke in part the 

antidumping duty (‘‘AD’’) order on 

wooden bedroom furniture from the 

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) 

with respect to certain toy boxes. In its 

November 25, 2008, submission, AFMC 

stated that it no longer has any interest 

in antidumping relief from imports of 

certain toy boxes with respect to the 

subject merchandise defined in the 

‘‘Scope of the Review’’ section below. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Stolz or Robert Bolling, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20230; 

telephone (202) 482–4474 and (202) 

482–3434, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On January 4, 2005, the Department 

published the Notice of Amended Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Antidumping Duty 

Order: Wooden Bedroom Furniture 

From the People’s Republic of China, 70 

FR 329 (January 4, 2005). On November 

25, 2008, AFMC requested revocation in 

part of the AD order pursuant to 

sections 751(b)(1) and 782(h) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the 

Act’’), with respect to certain toy boxes, 

as described below. 

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by the order is 

wooden bedroom furniture. Wooden 

bedroom furniture 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, oriented 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 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 

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12Cheval mirrors are any framed, tiltable mirror 

with a height in excess of 50’’ 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 

lined 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 Results 

of Changed Circumstances Review and 

Determination To Revoke Order in Part, 72 FR 948 

(January 9, 2007). 

13Metal 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 the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (‘‘HTSUS’’) subheading 9403.90.7000. 

14Upholstered 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). 

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; 

and (13) upholstered beds.14 Imports of 

subject merchandise are classified under 

subheading 9403.50.9040 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 

9403.50.9040 of the HTSUS as ‘‘parts of 

wood’’ and framed glass mirrors may 

also be entered under subheading 

7009.92.5000 of the HTSUS as ‘‘glass 

mirrors . . . framed.’’ This 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. 

Initiation and Preliminary Results of 

Changed Circumstances Review, and 

Intent to Revoke Order in Part 

At the request of AFMC, and in 

accordance with sections 751(d)(1) and 

751(b)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216, 

the Department is initiating a changed 

circumstances review of wooden 

bedroom furniture from the PRC to 

determine whether partial revocation of 

the AD order is warranted with respect 

to certain toy boxes. Section 782(h)(2) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i) 

provide that the Department may revoke 

an order (in whole or in part) if it 

determines that producers accounting 

for substantially all of the production of 

the domestic like product have no 

further interest in the order, in whole or 

in part. In addition, in the event the 

Department determines that expedited 

action is warranted, 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(3)(ii) permits the Department 

to combine the notices of initiation and 

preliminary results. 

In accordance with section 751(b) of 

the Act, and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(l)(i) and 

351.221(c)(3)(ii), we are initiating this 

changed circumstances review and have 

determined that expedited action is 

warranted. In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.216(b) and (c), we find that the 

petitioners’ affirmative statement of no 

interest constitutes good cause for the 

conduct of this review. Additionally, 

our decision to expedite this review 

stems from the domestic industry’s lack 

of interest in applying the AD order to 

the specific wooden bedroom furniture 

(i.e., certain toy boxes, discussed below) 

covered by this request. 

Based on the expression of no interest 

by petitioners and absent any objection 

by any other domestic interested parties, 

we have preliminarily determined that 

substantially all of the domestic 

producers of the like product have no 

interest in the continued application of 

the AD order on wooden bedroom 

furniture to the merchandise that is 

subject to this request. Therefore, we are 

notifying the public of our intent to 

revoke, in part, the AD order as it relates 

to imports of the certain toy boxes from 

the People’s Republic of China, as 

described below. 

If the order is revoked with respect to 

this product, we will add the following 

language to the list of excluded items 

included in the scope of the order: 

‘‘Excluded from the scope are toy 

boxes that meet each of the 

following criteria. The toy box 

must: 1) be wider than it is tall; (2) 

have dimensions within 16 27 

inches in height, 15 18 inches in 

depth, and 21 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 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.’’ 

Public Comment 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

Written comments may be submitted no 

later than 14 days after the date of 

publication of these preliminary results 

in the Federal Register. Rebuttals to 

written comments, limited to issues 

raised in such comments, may be filed 

no later than 21 days after the date of 

publication. The Department will issue 

the final results of this changed 

circumstances review, which will 

include the results of its analysis raised 

in any such written comments, no later 

than 270 days after the date on which 

this review was initiated, or within 45 

days if all parties that comment agree 

with our preliminary results. See 19 

CFR 351.216(e). 

If final revocation occurs, we will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection to end the suspension of 

liquidation for the merchandise covered 

by the revocation on the effective date 

of the notice of revocation (e.g. January 

1, 2007, the first day on which such 

merchandise is not subject to the final 

results of administrative review) and to 

release any cash deposit or bond. See 19 

CFR 351.222(g)(4). The current 

requirement for a cash deposit of 

estimated AD duties on all subject 

merchandise will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

This initiation and preliminary results 

of review and notice are in accordance 

with sections 751(b) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.216, 351.221, and 351.222. 

Dated: December 30, 2008. 

Stephen J. Claeys, 

Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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