by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2017 | News
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the outlines of a deal with the United States to resolve the softwood lumber dispute are in place. But she can’t predict whether the persistent trade irritant will be settled before negotiations begin on Aug. 16 to...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2017 | News
Canada would cap its U.S. market share at 30 percent, in an effort to settle the softwood lumber trade dispute, with the U.S. supplying the remainder. But resolving what happens if it can’t make up the balance may be keeping an agreement from being reached. The...
by Web Editor | Aug 2, 2017 | News
Canada and the United States must chop down one big, remaining impediment to a deal on softwood lumber and this obstacle involves wood from neither country but from other places: Germany, Sweden, Chile, Brazil and Russia. This irritant over distant imports is...
by Web Editor | Jun 13, 2017 | News
The U.S. Lumber Coalition, a trade group that had been rallying against the extension of the Softwood Lumber Agreement with Canada, came out as expected against the Canadian government’s plan to spend C$867-million in subsidies for Canadian softwood producers...
by Web Editor | Mar 31, 2017 | News
B.C. Envoy Says Window Is Open For U.S. Softwood Lumber Deal British Columbia’s softwood trade envoy says there’s a slight opportunity to quickly negotiate a new lumber agreement between Canada and the United States, but if a deal can’t be reached by the summer or...
