CIT Upholds Reduced Dumping Margin for Brazilian Paper Maker

The Court of International Trade upheld July remand results from the Commerce Department that saw the weighted-average dumping margin for antidumping duty respondent Suzano drop from 32.31% to 8.63%. The remand was the second in a case challenging the third administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain uncoated paper from Brazil (Suzano S.A. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00069).

Neither Suzano nor defendant-intervenor Domtar Corp. submitted additional comments after the remand results and all parties requested that the court sustain those results, the opinion said. Commerce adjusted its cost of production calculations for AD respondent Suzano and further explained it had determined Suzano's derivative losses were related to the operations of the company and costs of production, and were part of a routine expansion of the company’s operations (see 2307200016).

During the first remand proceedings, Suzano opposed, and Domtar supported, Commerce’s inclusion of derivative losses in Suzano’s financial expense rate.