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 | Nov 19, 2014 | News
With less than a year to go until the Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement expires, lines are being drawn on both sides of the border over the future of lumber trade between the two countries. Canadian producers say they want to extend the agreement, which has...
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...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2012 | News
Even as Canada declares victory in a major softwood lumber dispute with the United States, the organization representing British Columbia’s forest industry doesn’t expect the persistent American lumber lobby to reduce its competitive tactics. An international tribunal...
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...
