The News
The US International Trade Commission voted to keep duties on mattresses imported from seven countries: Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. The ITC found that removing them would likely hurt US mattress makers again.
The duties have been in place since 2021. Commerce found that Chinese subsidies of 97.78% would return if the duty on China ended. It also found that dumping margins of 20.03% to 763.28% would return for the other six.
Commissioner Samuel Negatu did not take part, according to the ITC’s notice.
The details
No foreign mattress maker answered Commerce in any of the seven reviews, so the reviews ran on filings from US producers alone. The ITC also ran its reviews on an expedited basis.
In the China review, Commerce said it “did not receive a substantive response from either the Government of China or a respondent interested party.”
Eight US manufacturers, including Tempur Sealy and Serta Simmons, asked to keep the duties on the other six countries, along with the United Steelworkers.
The 2021 duties are one of three rounds of US mattress duties.
A separate 2019 dumping duty on Chinese mattresses was kept in a review in 2025.
Duties on 12 more countries, including Mexico, India and Spain, started in 2024.
By our count, mattresses from 19 countries now face US duties.
Indonesia is the only country from the 2021 case that no longer has a duty. Commerce removed it in 2025 after a court cut Zinus Indonesia’s dumping margin to zero.
Zinus Indonesia’s margin fell from 2.22% to 0.00% in Commerce’s amended determination.
The revocation took effect Feb 28, 2025.
My notes
These seven countries keep their mattress duties until the next review. The ITC reviews them every five years. No foreign maker answered Commerce this time, so the only case in the record was the one US producers made for keeping the duties.
Indonesia is the only country from the 2021 case with no duty left. Commerce removed it in 2025 after a court cut Zinus Indonesia’s dumping margin to zero. Mattresses from 19 other countries still face US duties, by our count.
What’s next
The ITC will post its full reasoning, USITC Publication 5803, by Nov 19. Commerce will publish a notice continuing the seven duties, which come up for review again in five years.
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