Softwood Lumber Agreement

• Premier Brian Gallant heads to Washington to discuss lumber and free trade

  Gallant says the meeting with the United States Secretary of Commerce will focus on softwood lumber and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2017
  
• By the end of 2017, softwood lumber will cost almost 7% more to sell to the U.S.

  Canada's softwood lumber industry faces average duties of about 27 per cent after the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped it with an additional 6.87 per cent in preliminary average anti-dumping tariffs.

  Canada

  Jun 26, 2017
  
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• U.S. excludes three Canadian provinces from softwood lumber probe

  The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it had made a preliminary decision to exclude three Canadian Atlantic provinces from a U.S. investigation into whether Canada is dumping or subsidizing exports of softwood lumber.

  Canada

  Jun 26, 2017
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• Canadian firms brace for second round of U.S. softwood lumber duties Monday

  Canada's softwood lumber industry is bracing for a second wave of U.S. duties expected to come Monday that could put further pressure on producers, particularly smaller ones, to cut jobs.

  Canada

  Jun 25, 2017
• Jobs on the line as U.S. slated to add new softwood lumber duty

  It could be a while before Canada and the U.S. reach a new trade agreement, as both sides dig in.

  Money

  Jun 19, 2017
• Quebec workers start to feel effects of U.S.-Canada softwood lumber battle

  Hundreds of Quebec forestry workers are experiencing the first sour tastes from the softwood lumber battle with the United States as they prepare for the start of layoffs.

  Canada

  May 14, 2017
• Tariffs on Canada’s softwood lumber ‘baseless’, Morneau tells U.S. at G7 meeting

  A ministry statement says Morneau and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin engaged in a "productive discussion."

  Money

  May 12, 2017
• Canada, US softwood meetings ongoing as deal deadline looms: feds

  Failure to reach a deal by Oct. 15 — the one-year anniversary of the expiry of the old, nine-year pact — would allow U.S. producers to petition Washington to impose new duties.

  Economy

  Aug 18, 2016