Mississippi Furniture Manufacturers Get Extension of FTZ for Micro-Denier Suede

Today the Foreign Trade Zone ("FTZ") Board announced that three Mississippi furniture manufacturers, Bauhaus USA, Inc., H.M. Richards, Inc., Lane Furniture Industries, Inc., which in December 2008 had been granted the right to import, duty-free, a limited quantity of micro-denier suede fabric, for a period of five years, have now had that privilege extended indefinitely.

In the case of Bauhaus USA, Inc. the annual volume of foreign micro-denier suede upholstery fabric finished with a caustic soda solution that may be admitted to duty-free is limited to 3.5 million square yards.

In the case of H.M. Richards, Inc., the annual volume of foreign micro-denier suede upholstery fabric finished with a caustic soda solution that may be admitted duty-free is limited to 6.5 million square yards.

In the Lane Furniture Industries, Inc., the annual volume of foreign micro-denier suede upholstery fabric finished with a caustic soda solution that may be admitted duty-free is limited to 6.5 million square yards.