Canadian lumber producers face average 27 per cent duties with second wave

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MONTREAL (NEWS 1130) – Canada’s softwood lumber industry was slapped by the US Commerce Department Monday with an additional 6.87 per cent average preliminary anti-dumping duty for six months.

That raises total export tariffs to roughly 27 per cent for about two months until the 19.88 per cent average preliminary countervailing duties come off at the end of August.

Both duties would be reinstated around the end of the year when the rates of the final determinations are set.

Resolute Forest Products (TSX:RFP) was again assessed Monday with the lowest duties of 4.59 per cent while Canfor (TSX:CFP) gets the highest at 7.72 per cent.

Two other mandatory respondents, West Fraser Timber (TSX:WFT) and Tolko, were tagged with 6.76 and 7.53 per cent duties, respectively.

Countervailing duties target what the US considers unfair subsidies, while anti-dumping tariffs go after the alleged selling of softwood below market value.

The duties were imposed in response to petitions filed in November from the US Lumber Coalition. It alleges that provincial governments, which own most of Canada’s vast timberlands, provide trees to Canadian producers at rates far below market value, along with other subsidies.

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