Canadian Lumber Successor-in-Interest Case Dismissed

A case concerning the Commerce Department's refusal to start a successor-in-interest changed circumstances review for exporter GreenFirst Forest Products under the countervailing duty investigation on softwood lumber products from Canada has been dismissed with the agreement of all parties (GreenFirst Forest Products v. U.S., CIT # 22-00097).

The case was remanded back to Commerce in July by Court of International Trade Judge Claire Kelly but was ended before any remand redetermination was completed (see 2307060024).

GreenFirst said its purchase of lumber mills from RYAM caused GreenFirst to be a successor-in-interest, which would confer RYAM's "non-selected" countervailing duty rate on softwood lumber goods from Canada rather than the 14.19% all-others rate (see 2304040038).

DOJ had argued that GreenFirst couldn't claim successor status based solely on the purchase of mills (see 2305040078).

The dismissal included an agreement by the parties to each bear their own costs and fees.