U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute

Western Forest Products Inc. announced on Thursday that it has been selected as a mandatory respondent in the antidumping duty administrative review of certain softwood lumber products from Canada.

The U.S. Tuesday appealed a World Trade Organization panel report which found that Washington has failed to comply with the global commerce body's rulings in a long-running lumber dispute with Canada, trade officials said.

The British Columbia chamber of commerce has written to its counterparts in all 50 U.S. states urging them to write president George W. Bush to help rescue the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Canadian Lumber Trade Alliance (CLTA) has won the most important victory in the ongoing softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the U.S. A unanimous panel of three esteemed U.S. and Canadian judges, including the former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade, dismissed on Wednesday the U.S. Extraor...

On June, 9 the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Panel on anti-dumping released its second remand determination and unanimously handed Canada a clear and decisive victory in the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute.

U.S. again arbitrarily inflates subsidy rates

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the final results of the administrative reviews to establish the new countervailing and anti-dumping cash deposit rates going forward for all Canadian softwood lumber exports to the U.S. The administrative reviews resulted in a combined cash deposit rate of 21.21% substan...

The U.S. government regrettably prolonged the softwood lumber dispute by formally requesting that a NAFTA “extraordinary challenge committee” (ECC) review the NAFTA panel decision on threat of injury. The panel, including three Americans and two Canadians, have unanimously agreed there was no evidence to support the U....

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