The Department of Commerce (DOC) has released their decision on whether China should be subject to new countervailing duties.

U.S. hardwood plywood manufacturers filed an appeal Jan. 17 of the U.S. Court of International Trade's (ITC) ruling that dismissed their antidumping petition against imported Chinese hardwood plywood.

Masco Cabinetry KraftMaid planned a price increase based on tariff hikes expected for plywood imported from China. Instead, the International Trade Commission ruled that China didn't dump plywood - the most viewed report this week.

Forty years ago this past April I got a job running a panel saw for Armstrong Cabinets in Ottawa, Kansas. While I was there, I mastered every cabinetmaking task on the shop floor and every business task in the office.

The Federal shutdown is taking a toll on secondary wood manufacturing and primary lumber and timber businesses, affecting lumber exports, SBA business loans, and activities at Commerce Department, USDA, EPA, and OSHA.

Earnings at Lumber Liquidators, whose flooring sales have been growing rapidly with housing and economic recovery, will be closely watched when they are announced July 24.

Harden Furniture and other U.S. residential furniture manufacturers are owed tens of millions of dollars in antidumping fees that the federal government has failed to collect from Chinese wooden bedroom furniture manufacturers in recent years, claims U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).