International Trade Law News

Today the Commerce Department published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of the countervailing duty administrative reviews on Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada for the period April 1, 2000 through March 31, 2001. The preliminary results include companies that source less than a majority of their wood (less than 50 percent of their inputs) from the United States, the Maritime Provinces, Canadian private lands, and/or Canadian companies excluded from the order, and have acquired Crown timber through their own tenure contracts. The primary counterrvailabe program utilized by these respondents was the Stumpage Program. The preliminary CVD results for these companies ranged from 2.80% to 33.27%.