Episode 1501
A major update on Kitchen and Bath Cabinetry and imported cabinetry parts
We talk today about the latest new on imported cabinetry parts from China in our mid-week special! This is something to take a listen to if you are thinking about cabinetry for an upcoming project. What you might think is Made in USA just might not all be Made in USA.
For more details on this story: https://kcma.org/insights/preliminary-scope-ruling-cabinets-imported-malaysia-and-vietnam
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Transcript
[00:00:33] Eric Goranson: Happy mid. Special. Hope everybody is feeling good. It's springtime, you know, it's starting to feel like spring out there, at least in my area. Uh, sunshine is out and it's feeling, maybe it's not warm, but it's feeling a little bit closer to getting outside of winter, and I'm loving that today. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed the show this last weekend.
[:[00:01:26] Eric Goranson: Uh, to be a victim of dumping from China. And what was happening was is China was sending to, to make this really simple, China was selling cabinetry parts to the United States, either in cabinet parts or cabinets, and they were selling 'em below cost. And they call that dumping. . So what that meant was is this import stuff was really killing American jobs and it was showing up in, uh, many of the import stores and things like that.
[:[00:02:21] Eric Goranson: And you can find that in another discussion. You can look back in, uh, in the podcast here in the history of that, and you can find those episodes where we, uh, exposed that. Well, there was a, um, on March 20th here, which is great. That's yesterday. There was a preliminary scope ruling on the next phase of this.
[:[00:03:14] Eric Goranson: Announce it. On March 17th, the US Department of Commerce has issued a preliminary affirmative scope ruling in re in retrospect. Two wooden cabinets, vanities, and components thereof from China that are being shipped through Malaysia and Vietnam to evade the anti-D and countervailing duty orders on W C V from China, W C V being wood components, cabinets and vanities.
[:[00:04:10] Eric Goranson: That is K Craftmade. That is Yorktown. Design Craft Medallion Schuler Serenade Master Woodcraft Smart Cabinetry Cabinets, 2000 Meco Medallion mastercraft Cardell, Mela Quality Cabinets and American Cabinetry Collect. That is one of the brands. The other brand is Master Brands, which is Aristocrat Decor Diamond Fieldstone Home Crest Kemper, kitchen Craft Cabinetry, [00:05:00] mantra Mid Mid-Continent Cabinetry, omega Cabinetry.
[:[00:05:35] Eric Goranson: We're trying to take cut parts in to get around these. So even though those cabinets are assembled, and I'm using air quotes in the United States, they have been bringing in imported parts. So instead of them bringing in plywood and cutting it out in their factory at their production place, they have been ordering parts overseas, having them cut and having them shipped to them [00:06:00] pre-cut out.
[:[00:06:30] Eric Goranson: And to, uh, they did not like the K C M A going around and trying to fight them, you know, them going around the tariff situation. Well, the battle has gone to the, to the court and, uh, US Department of Commerce has basically said with the different scenarios, I'm not gonna get too deep in the weeds on this, but they examined the scenarios that they had brought.
[:[00:07:24] Eric Goranson: and they have, there's a lot to this, but because the Commerce Department found that there was insufficient information to decide some of the scenarios. They basically have asked for more information and, uh, going through a couple of the scenarios. So additional factual information must be submitted by March 30th of this year, so about another nine days from right now.
[:[00:08:27] Eric Goranson: You know, American workers get put outta jobs because companies are going out and going around the tariff situation that's there to, um, you know, make the almighty dollar on that. So, um, you know, I am, uh, not, I, I have been a fan and have worked with a lot of these other companies before. I'm happy I'm not in the cabin industry cuz uh, right now I would be taking my.
[:[00:09:11] Eric Goranson: Uh, cabinet Works is Craftmade Yorktown, design Craft Medallion Schuler Serenade, uh, master Woodcraft Smart Cabinets, Togo Meco, mastercraft Medallion, Cardell Quality American Cabinetry Collection, Merritt and Arbor Creek. Ironically, these brands, and I'll go over to me, uh, to master brands here, but. Almost all of these, if you walk into a home center, this is pretty much what you see in their custom order stuff that they have there.
[:[00:10:08] Eric Goranson: And, uh, I would sure take a look at those and, uh, you know, make your voice known if you want to, if you're thinking you're buying all American stuff with these brands, um, it appears you are not so something to consider when purchasing cabinetry for your. I tell you what, I've been having fun. I just got back here in the studio from, uh, scoping out a future segment.
[:[00:10:48] Eric Goranson: Which is around the house online.com, and you can see some of the segments over there. We have a, uh, page over on the Fox 12 YouTube page where it's all the, around the House Northwest videos over there that we've been slowly getting populated with a [00:11:00] lot more to come. But, uh, tell you what, I'm very happy with that one.
[:[00:11:24] Eric Goranson: All these people are making some really cool stuff out there, uh, you know, to be sold here across the country. And that's the fun part of it. So it's, uh, it's exciting to see so many people in industry out there building really cool stuff. Uh, in our, uh, recall alerts for the day. Couple things here. IKEA recalls, mirrors due to laceration hazard.
[:[00:12:08] Eric Goranson: So there's about 2,700 of those out there, so be careful of that. Uh, there's another one here, Sunbeam heated Blankets recalled to fire and burn hazards. That's another big one as well. And, uh, that's most of it right there for this week. And, um, there's a lot of power banks and stuff if you go on and look too, that some of these power banks are, are causing much bigger problems.
[:[00:12:49] Eric Goranson: But um, head over to at Fox 12, Oregon on YouTube and you can go over to the playlist and grab the around the house playlist right there. And you'll see all of our videos up there. [00:13:00] And, uh, you'll be able to see some of the stuff you're gonna find up there on there. Just to give you a little bit of a heads up, we've got our maid in the Northwest, which is Westco boots.
[:[00:13:28] Eric Goranson: And we're talking about the latest in garage doors from Clopay. And of course we talked Matt Grills and, uh, a lot of other stuff, including new stuff from Kohler 2023, all in video format. And, uh, Steph, you want to take a look at? And then I dove into the top 10 kitchen remodel mistakes to avoid. So there's so much over there and so much more.
[:[00:14:06] Eric Goranson: I hope you have a great safe week. We'll see you on Saturday. Thanks again.
