Portugal's Uncoated Paper Slapped with Antidumping Duties
Published Date: 10/6/2026
Notice
Summary
The U.S. Department of Commerce found that The Navigator Company from Portugal sold uncoated paper in the U.S. at unfairly low prices from March 2024 to February 2025. This means Navigator will face antidumping duties to level the playing field. These final results, effective October 6, 2026, keep the same rules as the earlier draft, with no changes or challenges.
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 5 costs, 0 mixed.
Cash deposit requirement set at 2.70% (Navigator)
For shipments entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after the publication date (October 6, 2026), the cash deposit rate for merchandise exported by Navigator will equal the 2.70% weighted-average dumping margin established in these final results. The all-others cash deposit rate will remain 7.80 percent as established in the less-than-fair-value investigation.
Risk of double antidumping duties if reimbursement certificate not filed
Importers must file a certificate regarding reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries for this review period, as required by 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2). Failure to file this certificate could lead Commerce to presume reimbursement occurred and to assess double antidumping duties.
Automatic assessment at 7.80% all-others rate for certain entries
For entries during the period of review produced by Navigator for which Navigator did not know the merchandise was destined for the United States, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to liquidate those entries at the all-others rate (7.80%) from the less-than-fair-value investigation if there is no rate for any intermediate company involved.
Navigator found to have 2.70% dumping margin
The Department of Commerce determined that The Navigator Company sold certain uncoated paper in the U.S. at less than normal value for the period March 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025, and assigned Navigator a weighted-average dumping margin of 2.70 percent. This determination is final as of the publication date, October 6, 2026, and means Navigator will face antidumping duties based on that 2.70% margin.
Assessment instructions and timing: 35- and 90-day rules
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection no earlier than 35 days after the final results are published, and if a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time to request a statutory injunction has expired (within 90 days of publication).
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