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Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association announced that American Woodmark, MasterBrand Cabinets, and Cabinetworks Group—three of the largest cabinet manufacturers in the U.S.—have left the association after KCMA’s board of directors rejected their ultimatum to drop its litigation against Vietnam and Malaysia for circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duties.

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Total industrial production increased 0.6% in July, up nearly 4% vs. last year. Production of wood products is up 4.4% vs. one year ago. Manufacturing output gained 0.7% after having fallen 0.4% in each of the two previous months. See the chart above for key industrial activity metrics.

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In a letter to the Commerce Department in support of their state's kitchen cabinet manufacturers and workers, Alabama's members of Congress expressed their concern about the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wooden cabinets from China. The delegation asked that the Secretary of Commerce "vigorously enforce" U.S. trade remedy laws to protect "constituents and the U.S. cabinet industry from China's continued unfair trade practices."