Macau (MNA) – Local manufacturer Macao Commercial Group has had duties of 234.51 per cent imposed on shipments of uncovered innerspring units headed for the United States, Macau News Agency (MNA) learned on Thursday.

Nelson Wu, the sales director of Macao Commercial Group, disagreed with the imposition, telling MNA that the group “will take action” against the International Trade Administration (ITA), which is an agency under the United States Department of Commerce.

“We are going to respond to this decision and we are going to show them [ITA] they are wrong. Because our products are all 100 per cent made in Macau.”

According to documents released by ITA, the duties were imposed as the company ‘failed to demonstrate that it had no shipments of Chinese-origin innersprings.’

As the company’s manufactured innersprings in Macau were made using components from China, ITA determined that Macao Commercial Group was guilty of circumventing anti-dumping duties imposed on China-made innersprings, hence duties of 234.5 per cent were imposed, effective August 21.

The current duties will stand unless Macao Commercial Group can demonstrate to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that the Chinese-origin innersprings assembled or completed in Macau by the Macao Commercial Group were supplied to a Chinese manufacturer at a separate rate than the current one agreed.

The US Consulate of Macao and Hong Kong have been contacted by MNA regarding other companies that may have been issued similar orders, but had not received a reply as at the time of writing.

Source: Macau Business