{"id":25737,"date":"2025-05-26T12:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=25737"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:33:42","slug":"474-tariffs-on-chinese-plywood-solves-united-states-dumping-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/474-tariffs-on-chinese-plywood-solves-united-states-dumping-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"474% Tariffs on Chinese Plywood Solves United States Dumping Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tariffs on thousands of cubic metres of US-bound hardwoods and decorative plywood traded into American ports every week could ramp up under a new plan pushed by the Coalition of Fair Trade in Hardwood Plywood <\/em>and petitioned to the US Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submitted on Thursday, the petition is calling for dumping margins of 134%, 203%, and a staggering 474% on timber flooding West Coast ports via Vietnam, Indonesia, and, of course, China:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“On May 22, 2025, the Coalition for Fair Trade in Hardwood Plywood (the “Coalition” or “Petitioner”) filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on US imports of hardwood and decorative plywood imported from the People’s Republic of China (“China”), Indonesia, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (“Vietnam”),” according to the petition led by the Columbia Forest Products, Commonwealth Plywood, Manthei Wood Products, States Industries, and Timber Products.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The petition argues that imports from the three targeted countries benefit from dozens of government subsidy programs, including grants, subsidised inputs, tax breaks, and preferential loans<\/a>: “These practices have materially injured the US industry by reducing production, shipments, profits, and employment,” they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States is amongst the world’s largest importers of hardwood plywood, with imports increasing 18% year-on-year to 746,000 cubic metres for the first three months of 2025, according to new data supplied by the US Department of Agriculture. Of the $490 million of hardwood traded, the vast majority is traded through Vietnam (30% or 223,000 cubic metres) and Indonesia (29% – 217,000 cubic metres), with China making up just 2% (or 17,000 cubic metres).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year<\/a>, Wood Central reported that Chinese traders were using Vietnam as a “friendly port” to trade hundreds of thousands of Chinese plywood into the US – with the US Department of Commerce ruling<\/a><\/em> traders were using the country to circumvent federal antidumping laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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