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US Softwood Lumber Duty 2017: Complete Confusion
Operators are suffering total bewilderment as US Customs and Border officials can not provide clarity on vital details of application of the new softwood lumber duties to entry waybills and pro-forma invoices. An experienced US customs broker, a good source for Madison’s, upon finally speaking to decision-makers at the US Commerce Department last week about…
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Canada Considers Retaliatory Trade Actions Against the Latest US Softwood Lumber Duties
BREAKING NEWS MID-DAY FRIDAY: The Canadian government has found several Oregon business-assistance programs it says may constitute illegal subsidies. It is considering a process that could lead to retaliatory duties on imports from that state’s products, such as plywood, flooring, wood chips, packaging material and wine, according to several mainstream news sources mid-day Friday. Prime…
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Material Updates on US Softwood Lumber Duty
The much-anticipated Preliminary Countervailing Duty on a wide range of Canadian softwood lumber product exports into the US became known last week, but the announcement created more questions than it answered. Forest operators in the north scrambled to all available sources for answers about changes to paperwork and any new mechanism at the border, while…
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DOC Office of Enforcement and Compliance’s Position on CVD Rate to be used
Madison’s is becoming increasingly alarmed that — through sheer lack of clarity and basic instructions to US Customs Border agents — the US has a sneaky way of applying the highest announced softwood lumber duty rates to the widest range of companies: what is “all others”?? that’s not a legal definition. is the duty rate…
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US Customs and Border Protection Instructions re: CVD/CC Preliminary Determinations
The level of sheer disorganization and lack of clarity on this latest US softwood lumber duty is appalling even to Madison’s, where we are used to a cumbersome and unclear process at the beginning of every new Canada-US Softwood Lumber Dispute: The US. Department of Commerce’s Preliminary CVD Announcement was published in the Federal Register…
