by Web Editor | Jun 2, 2017 | News
The Canadian government will give C$867 million (US$642.2 million) in financial support to Canadian lumber producers and exporters to help them withstand the impact of new U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood exports. In April, Washington imposed preliminary anti-subsidy...
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...
by Web Editor | Jan 25, 2017 | News
Canada has a “very special status” and is unlikely to be hit hard by changes the United States wants to make to the NAFTA trade accord, the head of a business advisory council to U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday. Stephen Schwarzman made his...
by Web Editor | Dec 14, 2016 | News
Trump’s ‘Get Tough’ Trade Plan Could Benefit Maine Lumber Industry Maine sawmills and timber harvesters could benefit if President-elect Donald Trump goes through with a draft plan to aggressively renegotiate trade terms for competing softwood lumber imported from...
by Web Editor | Apr 16, 2012 | News
The powerful softwood lumber lobby in the United States is suggesting it could thwart Canada’s efforts to join a Pacific free trade zone if its neighbor refuses to address long-standing irritants. Zoltan van Heyningen, executive director of the U.S. Lumber...