2023-26857: Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada: Notice of Reinstatement of Exclusion From the Countervailing Duty Order

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Summary

On November 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued an order in Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations v. United States, et. al., Consol. Ct. No. 19-00122 (Slip Op. 23-163), reinstating the exclusion of Les Produits Forestiers D&G Lt[eacute]e (D&G), Marcel Lauzon Inc. (MLI), North American Forest Products Ltd. (NAFP) (located in New Brunswick), and Scierie Alexandre Lemay & Fils Inc. (Lemay), and their cross-owned companies, from the countervailing duty (CVD) order on certain softwood lumber products (softwood lumber) from Canada. In accordance with the CIT's order, Commerce is issuing this notice excluding from the CVD order D&G, MLI, NAFP, and Lemay, and their cross-owned companies. Commerce will also direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to discontinue suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits for all shipments of softwood lumber produced and exported by D&G, Lemay, MLI, and NAFP, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after August 28, 2021, to liquidate all suspended entries of shipments of softwood lumber produced and exported by D&G, Lemay, MLI, and NAFP without regard to countervailing duties; and to refund all cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties collected on all such shipments.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

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