The US Department of Commerce has published the final results of its Antidumping Duty Administrative Review on Canadian softwood product exports to the US.
The Department of Commerce has listed producers and/or exporters that sold merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review – January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023. The results, posted in July, follow preliminary results published earlier on March 5.
The review covers 261 producers/exporters of subject merchandise, including two mandatory respondents, Canfor and West Fraser. The Department of Commerce has rescinded the review regarding 53 companies and made certain changes to the dumping margin calculations for both the mandatory respondents.
Final weighted average dumping margins:
• Canfor Corporation/Canadian Forest Products Ltd./Canfor Wood Products Marketing Ltd./Canfor Fox Creek Ltd./Canfor Whitecourt Ltd – 35.3%
• West Fraser Mills Ltd./Blue Ridge Lumber Inc./Manning Forest Products Ltd./Sundre Forest Products Inc – 9.65%
• Non-Selected Companies – 20.56%
Notably, the final rate for non-selected companies, which applies to most Canadian companies, increased to 20.56%, up from 7.66% determined in the previous administrative review.
The final results of the administrative review shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise under review and for future cash deposits of estimated duties, where applicable.
Cash deposit requirements will be effective for all shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results. The cash deposit rate for the companies under review will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin cited above.
For merchandise exported by producers or exporters not covered in the review but covered in a previously completed segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published in the final results for the most recent period in which that producer or exporter participated.
If the exporter is not a firm covered in this review or in any previous segment of this proceeding, but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate will be that established for the producer of the merchandise in these final results of review or in the final results for the most recent period in which that producer participated.
If neither the exporter nor the producer is a firm covered in this review or in any previously completed segment of this proceeding, then the cash deposit rate will continue to be 6.04% ad valorem, the all-others rate established in the original less than fair value investigation.
