NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF INQUIRY

Notice was received by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal on October 23, 2020, from the Director General of the Trade and Anti-dumping Programs Directorate at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), stating that preliminary determinations had been made respecting the dumping and subsidizing of decorative and other non‑structural plywood, whether or not surface coated or covered, and veneer core platforms for the production of decorative and other non‑structural plywood, originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China. Decorative and other non-structural plywood is defined as a flat, multilayered plywood or other veneered panel, consisting of two or more layers or plies of wood veneers and a core, with the face and/or back veneer made of wood. The veneers, along with the core are glued or otherwise bonded together. Decorative and other non-structural plywood include products that meet the American National Standard for Hardwood and Decorative Plywood, ANSI/HPVA HP-1-2016 (including any revisions to that standard), but exclude:

a) Structural plywood that is manufactured to meet U.S. Products Standard PS 1-09, PS 2-09, or PS 2‑10 for Structural Plywood (including any revisions to that standard or any substantially equivalent international standard intended for structural plywood), and which has both a face and a back veneer of coniferous wood;
b) Finished plywood products for use as flooring;
c) Plywood which has a shape or design other than a flat panel;
d) Phenolic Film Faced Plyform (PFF), also known as Phenolic Surface Film Plywood (PSF), defined as a panel with an “Exterior” or “Exposure 1” bond classification as is defined by The Engineered Wood Association, having an opaque phenolic film layer with a weight equal to or greater than 90g/m3 permanently bonded on both the face and back veneers and an opaque, moisture resistant coating applied to the edges; and
e) Laminated veneer lumber door and window components with (1) a maximum width of 44 millimetres, a thickness from 30 millimetres to 72 millimetres, and a length of less than 2413 millimetres, (2) water boiling point exterior adhesive, (3) a modulus of elasticity of 1,500,000 pounds per square inch or higher, (4) finger-jointed or lap-jointed core veneer with all layers oriented so that the grain is running parallel or with no more than three dispersed layers of veneer oriented with the grain running perpendicular to the other layers, and (5) top layer machined with a curved edge and one or more profile channels throughout.

This 26 October 2020 notice is available in its entirety on the CITT website.