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Petition Prompts Commerce Department to Pursue Furniture-Dumping Allegations.

Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 12--WASHINGTON--The U.S. Commerce Department said yesterday that it has started an anti-dumping investigation into imports of Chinese wood-bedroom furniture.

A petition filed by the American Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade, a coalition of 27 domestic-furniture manufacturers, and five union groups prompted the investigation.

The department determined that the petition contained sufficient evidence of dumping to proceed with the investigation. It will now assess whethe

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