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Since 2015, Vietnam has approved investments from 11 countries in 53 plywood projects, for a total of $243 million of foreign investment in plywood manufacturing. The largest outside investments occurred in 2016.

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Decorative Hardwoods Association (formerly HPVA) eNews Volume XIII, Issue XIII: U.S. Customs Cracks Down On Plywood Importers | U.S. Rescinds Administrative Review Of Chinese Hardwood Plywood Duties | AHF Products Moves Production From Shanghai To Cambodia | Flooring Workers Are A “Hot Spot” For COVID-19 Cases 

AHF Products will close its engineered flooring plant in China and supply U.S. markets from its Sihanoukville, Cambodia plant instead. The Cambodian facility has tripled its capacity over the past 12 months and intends to double that capacity between now and the first quarter of 2021.

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The U.S. Department of Commerce will not conduct an annual review of countervailing duties on hardwood plywood from China for 2019, as all parties have withdrawn their requests for the review.

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U.S. Customs issued a notice of final determination that substantial evidence shows that U.S. importers InterGlobal Forest, American Pacific Plywood, and U.S. Global Forest brought Chinese hardwood plywood into the United States through evasion. The allegation is that these U.S. importers are shipping substantial volumes of Chinese hardwood plywood through Cambodia into the U.S. without lawfully paying antidumping and countervailing duties.

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