The U.S. Department of Commerce has amended the final results of its administrative review on antidumping duties for some Canadian softwood lumber products, correcting ministerial errors, according to a Federal Register notice.
West Fraser Mills saw its antidumping duty rate lowered to from 5.32 percent to 5.04 percent. The rate for companies not selected for individual review dropped to from 7.80 percent to 7.66 percent. These changes apply to the review period of January 1 to December 31, 2022.
On August 19, 2024, Commerce published, in the Federal Register, the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on softwood lumber from Canada for the period of review (January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022)
On August 21, 2024, the department received a ministerial error allegation from West Fraser Mills, Ltd. (West Fraser), a mandatory respondent in this administrative review. As a result, Commerce Department amended the Final Results to correct the ministerial error alleged by West Fraser.
In its ministerial error comments, West Fraser alleged that Commerce failed to make the same adjustment in the corresponding margin calculation program, i.e., setting the stage of the review segment in the margin program to “final.” West Fraser alleged that by failing to set the stage of the review segment to final (instead of preliminary) in the margin calculation program, Commerce inadvertently accessed certain databases from the preliminary results margin program.
"We agree with West Fraser that we made a ministerial error in the Final Results," the department wrote in the register.
"... and have amended our calculations to correct the stage of the review segment section of the margin program. As a result, we also revised our calculation of the dumping margin for the non-selected companies.
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