Commerce Declines to Exclude Thermal Paper From AD Scope

The Commerce Department decided against excluding water-soluble thermal paper and phenol-free jumbo roll thermal paper from an antidumping duty investigation into thermal paper imports from German, Japan, South Korea and Spain, in a May 5 preliminary scope memorandum. In deciding not to exclude both product types from the antidumping duty order, Commerce cited deference given to the petitioners of the AD case when defining the scope of the order. Petitioners in this investigation, Appvion Operations, Inc. and Domtar Corporation, opposed the proposed scope exclusions.