The United States initially decided to levy a countervailing duty on imported wood flooring from China, but the US Department of Commerce is still evaluating dumping complaints. It is expected that the results will be announced in mid-May. According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Department of Commerce made a preliminary decision on Tuesday to impose a 27.01% countervailing duty on multi-layered wooden flooring imported from China. The Chinese government said that it provided unfair subsidies to local production companies. However, before the official collection of countervailing duties, the Ministry of Commerce must make a final decision and the US International Trade Commission must determine that the relevant imports are damaging to the interests of U.S. producers. Brake levers are usually mounted on the handlebars within easy reach of the rider's hands. They may be distinct from or integrated into the shifting mechanism. The brake lever transmits the force applied by the rider through either a mechanical or hydraulic mechanism. Bicycle Brake Lever, Bike Brake Lever, Road Bike Brake Lever, Hand Brake Lever HangZhou OEM Bicycle Industrial Co., Ltd , http://www.oembicycle.com
Bicycles with drop handlebars may have more than one brake lever for each brake to facilitate braking from multiple hand positions. Levers that allow the rider to work the brakes from the tops of the bars, introduced in the '70s, are called extension levers, safety levers or, for their reputation for being unable to actuate the full range of travel of the main brake lever, suicide levers. Modern top-mounted brake levers, called interrupt brake levers, use an entirely different method of actuation and are considered safer.
The mechanical advantage of the brake lever must be matched to the brake it is connected to in order for the rider to have sufficient leverage and travel to actuate the brake. Using mismatched brakes and levers could result in too much mechanical advantage and hence not enough travel to properly actuate the brake (v-brakes with conventional levers) or too little mechanical advantage, requiring a very strong pull to apply the brakes hard (v-brake levers with other types of brake).