Portugal Uncoated Paper: Commerce Retroactively Suspends Liquidation for Portucel, All Others

The Commerce Department will order CBP to retroactively suspend liquidation for all entries subject to the antidumping duty investigation on uncoated paper from Portugal entered on or after May 27, 2015, after making a preliminary determination of critical circumstances (here). According to Commerce, the only respondent in the investigation, Portugal, had “massive imports” of subject merchandise in the short period before Commerce set cash deposit requirements. Retroactive suspension of liquidation applies to all entries of subject merchandise from Portugal, regardless of the manufacturer or exporter. Commerce set the AD duty cash deposit rate for Portugal and all other Portuguese companies at 29.53% in its Aug. 26 preliminary determination.