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U.S. confirms duties for Canadian paper used in newsprint, irking Ottawa

Production workers stack newspapers onto a cart at the Janesville Gazette Printing & Distribution plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, in April. The U.S. Commerce Department is going ahead with a tax on Canadian newsprint, a threat to the already-struggling American newspaper industry. The tariffs unveiled Thursday are mostly lower than those originally announced earlier this year but would still impose an anti-dumping border tax as high as 16.88 percent. | ANGELA MAJOR / THE JANESVILLE GAZETTE / VIA AP

Reuters

Aug 3, 2018

WASHINGTON –

The United States on Thursday announced final duties on imported uncoated groundwood paper from Canada that is used for newspapers, with slightly lower anti-dumping and anti-subsidy rates than previously levied.

The U.S. Commerce Department set a final dumping rate of up to 16.88 percent and final anti-subsidy duties of up to 9.81 percent, it said in a statement.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Ottawa was disappointed by the final duties. They could still be rejected by the U.S. International Trade Commission, an independent body scheduled to rule in the case on Sept. 17.

U.S. confirms duties for Canadian paper used in newsprint, irking Ottawa

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