by Web Editor | Feb 8, 2016 | News
B.C. Premier Christy Clark is expressing hope the Trudeau government can overcome U.S. resistance and renew a softwood lumber deal that brought peace to Canada-U.S. trade relations a decade ago. “The last time … relations around softwood lumber went sideways,...
by Web Editor | Mar 11, 2015 | News
Canada’s lumber producers should be a happy lot. The U.S. housing market is coming back, exports are rising and the Canadian dollar is cheap. But the industry has a wary eye on its own version of the doomsday clock – the countdown to the Oct. 12 expiry of a long truce...
by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2014 | News
Canada says it has won an international ruling on export charges levied under the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement. Trade Minister Ed Fast says the London Court of International Arbitration has ruled in favor of the Canadian position that export charges should...