The news: Commerce found that revoking the antidumping duty orders on mattresses from Cambodia, Malaysia, Serbia, Thailand, Türkiye and Vietnam would likely bring dumping back, in final results of the first sunset reviews of those orders. They have been in place since 2021.
Importers who built mattress sourcing in those six countries after the China duties took effect keep paying.
The margins Commerce says would return:
Thailand: 763.28%
Vietnam: 668.38%
Serbia: 112.11%
Cambodia: 103.79%
Malaysia: 42.92%
Türkiye: 20.03%
Why it was expedited: Commerce received no substantive response from any respondent interested party, so it decided the reviews on the domestic filing alone. The request came from eight US manufacturers, including Tempur Sealy, Serta Simmons, Leggett & Platt and Brooklyn Bedding, plus the United Steelworkers.
The chase: Commerce hit Chinese mattresses with an antidumping order effective in 2019. Imports from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam grew, and domestic producers petitioned against those seven the following year. Duties took effect in 2021.
The same producers then petitioned against twelve more countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burma, India, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Taiwan. Indonesia is absent from this review, and the notice does not say why.
What's next: The ITC instituted its own five-year reviews on the same orders, plus China, this spring. Commerce's finding covers dumping; the ITC decides whether revocation would injure US producers. Both have to line up before the orders formally continue.
