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Income from Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act | 12 Months Ended
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Apr. 27, 2013
Income from Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act [Abstract] |
Income from Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act | Note 20: Income from Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act The Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 ("CDSOA") provides for distribution of duties collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection from antidumping cases to domestic producers that supported the antidumping petition. We received $18.0 million during fiscal 2012 and $1.1 million during fiscal 2011 in CDSOA distributions related to the antidumping order on wooden bedroom furniture from China. Certain domestic producers who did not support the antidumping petition ("Non-Supporting Producers") filed actions in the U.S. Court of International Trade challenging the CDSOA's "support requirement" and seeking a share of the distributions. As a result, Customs withheld a portion of those distributions pending resolution of the Non-Supporting Producers' actions. Between October 2011 and February 2012, the Court of International Trade entered judgments against the Non-Supporting Producers and dismissed their actions. On January 1, 2012, Customs announced that it would distribute the withheld distributions. The Non-Supporting Producers then filed motions in the Court of International Trade and, later, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to enjoin such distributions pending their appeal of the Court of International Trade's judgments. On March 5, 2012, the Federal Circuit denied the Non-Supporting Producers' motions for injunction "without prejudicing the ultimate disposition of these cases." If the Federal Circuit were to reverse the judgments of the Court of International Trade and determine that the Non-Supporting Producers are entitled to CDSOA distributions, it is possible that Customs may seek to have us return all or a portion of our company's share of the distributions. Based on what we know today, we do not expect this will occur. The $18.0 million we received in fiscal 2012 included $16.3 million of previously withheld distributions received in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012.In November 2012, Customs determined to withhold CDSOA distributions pending resolution of the Federal Circuit appeals. As a result, we did not receive any CDSOA distributions in fiscal 2013.

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