On Monday, April 23, 2001, the Department of Commerce will announce the initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on Certain Softwood Lumber from Canada. 

PETITIONERS
The petitions were filed by the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports Executive Committee, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (the petitioners). In addition, on April 20, 2001, the petitions were amended to include the following four companies individually as petitioners: Moose River Lumber Co., Shearer Lumber Products, Shuqualak Lumber Co. and Tolleson Lumber Co., Inc.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The products covered by these investigations are softwood lumber, flooring and siding (softwood lumber products). Softwood lumber products include all products classified under headings 4407.1000, 4409.1010, 4409.1090, and 4409.1020, respectively, of the HTSUS, and any softwood lumber, flooring and siding described below. These softwood lumber products include: 

(1) coniferous wood, sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding six millimeters; 

(2) coniferous wood siding (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rabbeted, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed; 

(3) other coniferous wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rabbeted, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges or faces (other than wood mouldings and wood dowel rods) whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed; and

(4) coniferous wood flooring (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, 
not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rabbeted, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed. 

Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and U.S. Customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise under investigation is dispositive. 

CASE CALENDARS
 

ACTION	AD	CVD
Petition Filed	April 2, 2001	April 2, 2001
DOC Initiation	April 23, 2001	April 23, 2001
ITC Preliminary Determiniation	May 17, 2001	May 17, 2001
DOC Preliminary Determination*	Sept. 10, 2001	June 27, 2001
DOC Final Determination*	Nov. 26, 2001	Sept. 10, 2001
ITC Final Determination	Jan. 10, 2002	Oct. 25, 2001
DOC Issues Orders (If warranted)	Jan. 17, 2002	Nov. 1, 2001

 

* U.S. law allows these dates to be extended

ALLEGED SUBSIDY RATE: 39.9 percent (Petitioners were able to provide only estimated subsidy rates for their allegations involving stumpage fees paid by lumber producers in Canada)

ALLEGED DUMPING MARGINS: 0.60 to 37.64 percent (Reflects methodological adjustments made by the Department)

VOLUME AND VALUE OF IMPORTS
 

YEAR	VOLUME (MMBF)	VALUE (U.S.)
1999	18,244	$7,213,585,000
2000	18,333	$6,379,336,000

 

Source: Data are from the IM-145 data, U.S Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census. 

INTERESTED PARTIES/APO APPLICATIONS

Parties who meet the regulatory definition of an interested party may file a letter of appearance in these proceedings. See section 771(9) of the Act. 

INITIATION NOTICES AND PUBLIC VERSIONS OF THE INITIATION CHECKLISTS

The initiation notices of these investigations can be accessed directly on the Web at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/lumber/a122838init.txt for the antidumping notice and http://ia.ita.doc.gov/lumber/c122839init.txt for the CVD notice. The initiation notices and public versions of the initiation checklists are also available in our Central Records Unit, Room B-099, in the Main Commerce Building, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.