The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is committed to helping to protect the Canadian economy and Canadian jobs by ensuring a fair playing field when faced with international competition. Accordingly, the Agency announced today that it is launching two investigations to determine whether mattresses from China are being sold at unfair prices in Canada and whether these goods are being subsidized.
The investigations are the result of a complaint filed with the CBSA by Restwell Mattress Co., Ltd. and the United Steelworkers Canada. The complainants allege that as a result of an increase of the volume of the dumped and subsidized imports from China, they have suffered material injury in the form of lost market share, lost sales, price undercutting, price depression, declining financial performance and reduced capacity utilization.
The CBSA and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) both play a role in the investigations. The CITT will begin a preliminary inquiry to determine whether the imports are harming Canadian producers and will issue a decision by April 25, 2022. Concurrently, the CBSA will investigate whether the imports are being sold in Canada at unfair prices and/or are being subsidized, and will make a preliminary decision by May 25, 2022.
Currently, there are 148 special import measures in force in Canada, covering a wide variety of industrial and consumer products, from steel products to refined sugar. These measures have directly helped to protect the Canadian economy and Canadian jobs.
Quick facts
- The subject goods are mattresses. For more product information, please refer to Canada Border Services Agency: Anti-dumping and countervailing
- The Canadian market for mattresses has been estimated at $800 million annually
- A copy of the Statement of Reasons, which provides more details about these investigations, will be available on the CBSA’s website within 15 days from the date the investigations are launched
- Special import measures have directly helped to protect approximately 32,000 Canadian jobs and $10.6 billion in Canadian production
