NAFTA – CANADIAN ALLOY MAGNESIUM
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLCANADIAN alloy magnesium producer Magnola has been correctly charged 21.61% countervailing duties on its exports to the United States, a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel has ruled. It has found that the US Department of Commerce's (DoC) decision to impose the duties was legal under NAFTA and "supported by substantial evidence on the record". This had been challenged by Magnola and its home Canadian province of Québec, which claimed it had not exported "alloy magnesium" to the US before 1992, when the duties were imposed against ...
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