The Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department’s expedited countervailing duty review on Canadian softwood lumber for the ninth time on Dec. 18, finding the agency abused its discretion in declining to reopen the record to let respondent Les Produits Forestiers D&G and its cross-owned affiliate Les Produits Forestiers Portbec add information to help distinguish sales affected by subsidies to unaffiliated input suppliers. …D&G and Portbec argued that Commerce needed to take into account that the “vast majority” of the companies’ transactions involve buying Canadian lumber on a “duty paid basis in the United States and reselling the lumber to buyers in the United States.” …While the information D&G and Portbec previously submitted “may have been qualitative instead of quantitative,” the agency’s statement that the… information wasn’t previously disclosed “is contradicted by the record.” [to access the full story a Trade Law Daily subscription is required]