• Effective Date: Aug 09, 2022
  • Period Covered: 08/09/2022 to 10/20/2022
  • Period of Review: Jan 01, 2020 to Dec 31, 2020
  • Cite as: 87 FR 64008 • Cite date: Oct 21, 2022
1. On 10/21/2022 (87 FR 64008), Commerce published in the Federal Register its correction to the amended final results of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain softwood lumber products from Canada for the period 01/01/2020 through 12/31/2020. See message 2294404, dated 10/21/2022. 2. Title 19 U.S.C. 1520(a)(4) authorizes refunds prior to liquidation whenever an importer of record declares or it is ascertained that excess duties, fees, charges, or exactions have been deposited or paid. In accordance with 19 U.S.C. 1520(a)(4), CBP is authorized to grant a refund, if requested by the importer, of cash deposits for entries of certain softwood lumber products from Canada from the entities listed in paragraph 4 below which were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 08/09/2022 (date of final results in the Federal Register) through 10/20/2022 (day before date of publication of the correction to the amended final results in the Federal Register). 3. The refund amount will be calculated by determining the difference between the amount of cash deposits paid as a result of the application of the final results rate and the amount due as a result of the application of the corrected amended final results rate. 4. Listed below are the deposit rates that were assigned to the firms in the final results. See message 2228404, dated 08/16/2022. Note that these companies were not included in the Federal Register notice and these rates were the rates that were in effect based on prior reviews or the all-others rate. In addition, listed below are the amended deposit rates assigned in the corrected amended final results (see message number 2294404, dated 10/21/2022): Producer and/or Exporter: Coast Clear Wood Ltd. Case number: C-122-858-074 Final results rate: 6.32% Amended final results rate: 3.83% Producer and/or Exporter: Pine Ideas Ltd. Case number: C-122-858-180 Final results rate: 6.32% Amended final results rate: 3.83% Producer and/or Exporter: Coulson Manufacturing Ltd. Case number: C-122-858-321 Final results rate: 14.19% Amended final results rate: 3.83% Note: entries may have been made under C-122-858-000 or other company specific case numbers. Producer and/or Exporter: Halo Sawmill, a division of Delta Cedar Specialties Ltd. Case number: C-122-858-322 Final results rate: 14.19% Amended final results rate: 3.83% Note: entries may have been made under C-122-858-000 or other company specific case numbers. Producer and/or Exporter: Mainland Sawmill, a division of Terminal Forest Products Ltd. Case number: C-122-858-323 Final results rate: 14.19% Amended final results rate: 3.83% Note: entries may have been made under C-122-858-000 or other company specific case numbers. 5. Do not liquidate entries of certain softwood lumber products from Canada produced and/or exported by the entities listed in paragraph 4 above until specific liquidation instructions are issued. 6. The assessment of countervailing duties by CBP on shipments or entries of this merchandise is subject to the provisions of section 778 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. Section 778 requires that CBP pay interest on overpayments or assess interest on underpayments of the required amounts deposited as estimated countervailing duties. The interest provisions are not applicable to cash posted as estimated countervailing duties before the date of publication of the countervailing duty order. Interest shall be calculated from the date payment of estimated countervailing duties is required through the date of liquidation. The rate at which such interest is payable is the rate in effect under section 6621 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for such period. 7. If there are any questions by the importing public regarding this message, please contact the Call Center for the Office of AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-0984. CBP ports should submit their inquiries through authorized CBP channels only. (This message was generated by OIII:KJ.) 8. There are no restrictions on release of this information. Alexander Amdur