Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Sun, Changyou
Committee Member
Muhammad, Andrew
Committee Member
Grebner, L. Donald
Committee Member
Munn, A. Ian
Date of Degree
8-8-2009
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Forestry
Degree Name
Master of Science
College
College of Forest Resources
Department
Department of Forestry
Abstract
The U.S. furniture industry has faced the challenge from increasing imports of furniture from foreign countries over the last decades. In the first part of this thesis, the import pattern of wooden bedroom furniture and the antidumping investigation against China were summarized, and furthermore, intervention analysis was employed to assess its impacts on the import value and unit price of China. The results revealed that the impact on import values was temporary but there was no significant impact on unit prices. The traditional suppliers have been substituted by the newly developing countries such as China and Vietnam. In the second part of this thesis, to explain the market structure change, a dynamic AIDS model was used to analyze the consumer behavior and evaluate the impacts of antidumping investigation on the major competitors in the second part. The results indicated that most imported wooden bedroom furniture can be substituted between suppliers and trade diversion occurred from China to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Brazil.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15293
Recommended Citation
Wan, Yang, "Assessing the import demand of wooden furniture in the United States and its impact on the furniture industry" (2009). Theses and Dissertations. 759.
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