On December 30, 2011, Whirlpool Corporation filed anti-dumping petitions against residential clothes washers from South Korea and Mexico, and an anti-subsidy petition against the same products from South Korea, with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission.  Whirlpool filed these petitions seeking enforcement of United States and international trade laws. The company's goal is to promote a fair and open global trading system, to protect American jobs, and to ensure its ability to continue to innovate and invest in the United States.

In March 2011, Whirlpool Corporation also filed anti-dumping petitions against bottom mount refrigerators from South Korea and Mexico, and an anti-subsidy petition against the same products from South Korea.  Those investigations are progressing through the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission processes.

For More information - residential clothes washers

• 02/10/2012 Whirlpool Corporation is Pleased with U.S. International Trade Comission's Preliminary Affirmative Finding that Imports of Large Residential Clothes Washers are Harming U.S. Appliance Industry
• 12/30/2011 Whirlpool Corporation Files Petitions Challenging Unlawful Trade Practices
• 12/30/2011 Antidumping and Countervailing duty Petition (PDF)

For more information - Bottom mount refrigeration

• 04/17/2012 Whirlpool Corporation Comments on Anti-Dumping Ruling
  Involving Bottom-Mount Refrigerators from South Korea and Mexico
• 3/19/2012 Whirlpool Corporation Comments on U.S. Department of Commerce’s Final Dumping Determinations Against LG and Samsung
• 12/27/2011 U.S. Commerce Department finds further evidence of unfair trade practices; Korean government subsidized Daewoo
• 10/27/2011 Whirlpool Corporation Comments on US Department of Commerce Preliminary Dumping Determination
• 8/30/2011 Press Release on Commerce Department Preliminary Determination on Subsidies
• 5/13/2011 Statement on ITC Preliminary Determination on Material Harm
• 5/13/2011 Text of the ITC Preliminary Decision of Material Injury (PDF)
• 3/30/2011 Press Release on Filing of Petitions
• 3/30/2011 Text of the Dumping and Subsidy Petitions (PDF)
  
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