Edgar Filing: WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Date: December 30, 2011

/s/ ROBERT J. LAFOREST

Name: Robert J. LaForest

Title: Corporate Secretary

Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) December 30, 2011

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as Specified in Charter)


Delaware	1-3932	38-1490038
(State or Other Jurisdiction	(Commission	(IRS Employer
of Incorporation)	File Number)	Identification No.)


2000 M-63 North, Benton Harbor, Michigan				49022-2692
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)				(Zip Code)

(269) 923-5000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

¨	Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

¨	Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

¨	Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

¨	Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Item 8.01. Other Events.

On December 30, 2011, Whirlpool Corporation issued a press release announcing the filing of antidumping petitions against residential clothes washers from South Korea and Mexico, and a companion countervailing duties petition against the same products from South Korea. A copy of the press release is attached and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

99.1 Press Release dated December 30, 2011

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.