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Income from Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act | 12 Months Ended
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Apr. 26, 2014
Income from Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act [Abstract] |
Income from Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act | Note 22: 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 $11.1 million related to continuing operations and $6.9 million related to discontinued operations during fiscal 2012 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.” 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 or fiscal 2014. On August 19, 2013, a panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed dismissal of the actions of two of the Non-Supporting Producers, and the full Federal Circuit subsequently denied those Non-Supporting Producers’ request for rehearing. On May 2, 2014, these Non-Supporting Producers filed a petition for writ of certiorari, seeking review by the United States Supreme Court. A motion to affirm dismissal of the action brought by a third Non-Supporting Producer is pending in the Federal Circuit. In view of the uncertainties associated with this program, we are unable to predict the amounts, if any, we may receive in the future under the CDSOA. Also, if the United States Supreme Court were to reverse the judgments of the Federal Circuit and determine that the Non-Supporting Producers are entitled to CDSOA distributions, it is possible that Customs might 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 to occur. The $11.1 million and $6.9 million we received in fiscal 2012 related to continuing operations and discontinued operations, respectively, included $10.0 million and $6.3 million, respectively, of previously withheld distributions received in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012.

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