Canada Softwood Lumber: Final Results of AD/CVD Admin Reviews
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD/CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
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For exporters of subject merchandise that were not under review (i.e., all except the companies listed below), cash deposit rates remain at the level set in the most recent review of each respective company. If the exporter has never been assigned its own AD or CVD rate but the manufacturer has, the AD or CVD rate assigned to the manufacturer applies. For merchandise manufactured and exported by companies that have never been assigned an AD or CVD cash deposit rate by Commerce, the AD all-others rate of 6.58% or the CVD all-others rate of 14.19% applies, respectively.
New Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect Aug. 9
For entries on or after Aug. 9, the date of publication of the final results of each review in the Federal Register, Commerce is setting new AD cash deposit rates for subject merchandise produced or exported by the following companies:
| Exporter | AD Rate |
|---|---|
| Canfor Corp./Canadian Forest Products Ltd./Canfor Wood Products Marketing Ltd. | 4.92% |
| West Fraser Mills Ltd./Blue Ridge Lumber Inc./Manning Forest Products Ltd./ and Sundre Forest Products Inc. | 4.63% |
| Average rate for 273 companies | 4.76% |
(See Commerce's notice, Appendix II, for the full list of 273 companies that were assigned new AD rates but were not under individual review.)
No shipments. Commerce also made a final determination that Careau Bois, Inc. had no shipments during the calendar year 2020 period of review. Any entries under Careau's case number will be liquidated at the all others rate.
Commerce also is setting new CVD cash deposit requirements for subject merchandise entered on or after Aug. 9 that was produced or exported by the following companies:
| Producer/Exporter | CV Rate |
|---|---|
| Canfor Corp./Canadian Forest Products, Ltd./Canfor Wood Products Marketing, Ltd. | 0.95% |
| J.D. Irving, Ltd./Miramichi Timber Holdings Ltd./The New Brunswick Railway Co./Rothesay Paper Holdings Ltd./St. George Pulp & Paper Ltd. | 2.41% |
| Resolute FP Canada Inc./Resolute Growth Canada Inc./Produits Forestiers Maurice S.E.C./Resolute Forest Products Inc. | 10.1% |
| West Fraser Mills Ltd./West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd./West Fraser Alberta Holdings, Ltd./Blue Ridge Lumber Inc./Manning Forest Products, Ltd./Sunpine Inc./Sundre Forest Products Inc. | 3.62% |
| Review Average Rate (Applicable to 239 companies) | 3.83% |
(See Commerce's notice, Appendix II, for the full list of 239 companies that were assigned new CV rates but were not under individual review.)
No shipments. In the final determination, Commerce said it rescinded the review for the following 18 companies that had no reviewable shipments or entries of subject merchandise during the review period: AA Trading Ltd.; Blanchette & Blanchette Inc.; Canada Pallet Corp.; Careau Bois Inc.; Cedarcoast Lumber Products; CWP-Montreal inc.; Goldband Shake & Shingle Ltd.; Imperial Cedar Products, Ltd.; Les Produits Forestiers D&G Ltee (aka, D&G Forest Products Ltd.); Marcel Lauzon Inc.; North American Forest Products Ltd. (located in Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick); Sapphire Lumber Co.; Scierie Alexandre Lemay & Fils Inc.; Skeena Sawmills Ltd; Sonora Logging Ltd.; Suncoast Industries Inc.; Western Timber Products, Inc.; WWW Timber Products Ltd.
Assessment Rates for Entries in January-December 2020
Commerce will also calculate the AD and CVD it will assess on importers for entries of subject merchandise entered between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020. Importers of subject merchandise exported by Canfor and West Fraser will be assessed AD duties at importer-specific rates. Importers of subject merchandise exported by the 273 average rate companies will be assessed AD duties at a rate of 4.76%. Commerce will use the rates listed above to set CVD assessments for the 243 exporters under review for entries in calendar year 2020.
(The review period is 01/01/20 - 12/31/20. See Commerce's notice for more information, including the scope of the order, detailed cash deposit and assessment instructions, etc. See 2202030054 for a summary of the preliminary results of the AD and CVD administrative reviews.)