Coated Paper Trade Cases

In September 2009, U.S. paper producers Appleton Coated, LLC; NewPage Corporation; and S.D. Warren Company, dba Sappi Fine Paper North America, along with the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union filed a petition seeking the imposition of tariffs on certain categories of coated paper suitable for high quality graphics using sheetfed presses manufactured by paper producers in China and Indonesia. The paper under investigation is typically used for printing multicolored graphics for catalogues, books, magazines, labels and wraps, greeting cards and other high quality items.