Five years after the United States shut the door on Chinese wood mouldings and millwork imports with antidumping and countervailing duties, a new decision underscores continued concerns about unfair trade practices. The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC, or the Commission) voted to keep the existing orders in place, concluding that lifting them would likely result in the continuation or recurrence of injury to domestic manufacturers. Chair Amy A. Karpel and Commissioners David S. Johanson and Jason E. Kearns voted in the affirmative.
Antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders specifically represent wood mouldings and millwork from China, and are not related to the Antidumping Duty Review Determination Wood Moulding and Millwork Products from the PRC: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review that three Chinese supplier and export companies are challenging with a lawsuit. Instead, recent action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, and references a decision first made in January of 2021. On April 7, 2026, the Commission chose to conduct expedited five-year reviews. Karpel, Johanson and Kearns concluded that the domestic interested party group responses were adequate and the interested party group responses were inadequate, voting for expedited reviews.
The Commission’s public report, Wood Mouldings and Millwork Products from China (Inv. Nos. 701-TA-636 and 731-TA-1470 (Review), USITC Publication 5755, June 2026), will contain the views of the Commission and information developed during the reviews.
The report will be available on the USITC website by July 22, 2026.