U.S. Cabinet Distributors Push Back on Trade Petition filed by Made-to-Order Sector

U.S. Cabinet Distributors Push Back on Trade Petition filed by Made-to–Order Sector

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 2:00 – 3:00 PM (Media Registration: 1:45 PM)

National Press Club, 529 14^th Street NW, 13^th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20045

Edward R. Murrow Room

The American Coalition of Cabinet Distributors (ACCD):

• Executives from U.S. companies with operations in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas
• ACCD counsel Matt Nicely, Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed

Despite representing less than 10% of the growing U.S. cabinet industry, “Ready-to-Assemble” (RTA) cabinet distributors, a distinct segment of the U.S. cabinet industry, are under attack by a group of companies in the “made-to-order” cabinet sector of the industry who filed a trade petition asking the U.S. government to impose trade duties against imported RTA product from China.

Executives from U.S. RTA cabinet companies will discuss the damage that a successful trade petition would inflict on these American businesses and employees; the customers served by the quick-turnaround, limited selection RTA cabinet business model; and the hypocrisy of being targeted in an anti-China trade petition by U.S. “made-to-order” cabinet producers that have themselves been significant importers of cabinet product from China.

The American Coalition of Cabinet Distributors is the voice of small and medium-sized businesses that import, distribute and install ready-to-assemble (RTA) cabinets in homes and businesses across the United States. Our member companies directly employ tens of thousands of Americans and indirectly support many more.

RSVP to Maya Bogle, [email protected] 202-828-1727