预警信息：加拿大家具制造商理事会向加拿大国际贸易法院申请针对中国家庭用家具的特保调查  

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加拿大家具制造商理事会向加拿大国际贸易法院申请针对中国家庭用家具的特保调查 

Canadian producers claim damage from Chinese imports, seek tariffs or quotas 

Michael J. Knell -- Furniture Today, 10/31/2005 11:20:00 AM 

Tribunal has 90 days to rule  

    OTTAWA -- The Canadian Council of Furniture Manufacturers has filed a complaint with the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, seeking an inquiry into household furniture imports from China. 

    If that inquiry shows furniture imports from China have caused material damage to the domestic industry, the CITT could recommend that safeguard tariffs or quotas be imposed, giving Canadian producers time to adjust. 

    The tribunal has 90 days to make a ruling. Any tariffs or quotas imposed normally last no longer than three to five years.   

    “The CCFM believes it can show the rapid increase of Chinese imports over the past five years is causing a market disruption to the Canadian industry and that it is suffering material injury because of this development,” the CCFM said in a written statement. “The industry hasn’t had sufficient time to adjust to this new reality.” 

    The CCFM is an umbrella organization of this country’s three regional factory groups, the Quebec Furniture Manufacturers Assn., the Ontario Furniture Manufacturers Assn. and Furniture West. 

    “Statistics show the Canadian market is increasingly monopolized by imports, mainly from China,” the statement said. “Since 2000, imports have risen by an average of 200% while over the past three years, China has replaced the United States as the main source of imported residential furniture on the Canadian market and imports continue to register record figures in every quarter. 

    “The production capacity of the Chinese industry is immense and still has major development potential. There is no reason to believe imports will abate. On the contrary, our domestic market is increasingly threatened,” the statement continued. “Canadian producers are losing major market share at home. The industry is in crisis.” 

    The industry is looking to create new tools to improve competitiveness, the statement noted. For example, a research, development and technology transfer fund and research partnership in Quebec has been launched. 

    “What the industry needs to time to adjust, which is exactly the objective of the filing we have made with the CITT,” the statement said. “The industry has always proven itself resilient when it’s given time to react to changing realities — we did it after the introduction of free trade in the early 1990s and we’ll do it again.”