An even more onerous set of circumstances surrounds the latest developments in the Bedroom Furniture case.
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About seven years ago, they began making hand-carved bedroom furniture near Shanghai, but they recently ceased production there amid uncertainty over duties.
Discounting the brief period after World War II when underutilized machine shops turned out bedroom furniture, this is Boeing's first consumer business.
The case of Wooden Bedroom Furniture from China has nothing to do with unfair trade and is a perfect example of the need for antidumping reform.
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Since then it has evolved to include Swedish words for the living room, Norwegian terms for bedroom furniture and Danish words for things like toilet seats and doormats.
Among items he claimed for, according to the Daily Telegraph which has been publishing leaked details of MPs expenses, were a new kitchen, seven doors, wooden flooring, bedroom furniture, chairs and tables, two bookcases and a television.
In the late 1990s Vaughan-Bassett invited one of the largest Chinese producers, Lacquer Craft, to its factory to videotape production of bedroom furniture so that it could produce bedroom furniture in China for Vaughan-Bassett to import and resell.
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While imports of wooden bedroom furniture from China have increased considerably over the past few years, domestic producers (including many of the companies that brought or at least supported the antidumping petition) have played a major role in that increase.
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If the American public were familiar with all of the sordid details of the antidumping case concerning wooden bedroom furniture from China (which I called a Poster Child for Reform back in 2004), they would be angry and ready to change the law.
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For example, the record shows that 20 of the 40 responding domestic producers imported Chinese merchandise during the period and that the 12 largest domestic producers of wooden bedroom furniture all imported reasonably substantial and increasing volumes of merchandise from China during the period of investigation.
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Well, on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal did its part by running a story about how U.S. producers of wooden bedroom furniture have been extorting cash from their Chinese competition in exchange for dropping pursuit of even higher antidumping duty rates at the Commerce Department.
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Founders: Mark Diks, 45, and Pieter Diks, 44, board member Stock options: 12% interest in company Why on the list: The Diks brothers now run 400 stores in the Netherlands' formerly fragmented bedroom-furniture market.
Furniture that was moved on July 9, 2004 included two sofas, two chairs, a glass coffee table, a fully furnished office, a bedroom set, outdoor furniture and a grill.
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They removed heavy furniture from their bedroom in hopes of buying more time.
"They entered my bedroom and ransacked all the furniture, " she said.
Carie Smith, a designer for Baltus, a company that added a children's furniture line about three years ago, designed a bedroom for three teenage sisters in a Miami penthouse with custom-designed furnishings and a glass wall overlooking the home's living room and the ocean.
We're like old furniture that has to be rearranged in a new house, put into this corner or that second bedroom down the hallway.
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