Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce signalled its intention to raise current duties on Canadian softwood lumber, further aggravating a trade dispute that stretches back more than 40 years.
Whether the warning letters are real or rumour, it underscores the uncertainty roiling lumber markets as a result of Trump’s tariff threats. Canadian softwood lumber producers already pay duties ...
B.C.’s Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says U.S. softwood lumber duties and president-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs could be “devastating” to the province’s ...
GreenFirst Forest Products is selling its softwood lumber duty refund rights to Mahogany Investors LLC for $17.5 million. The Canadian lumber producer said the deal includes the potential for ...
The US moved to slap hefty tariffs on the import of Canadian softwood lumber, a common construction material used in homebuilding, in April. But this summer the Commerce Department said it would ...
The Canadian government on Tuesday launched a challenge against American duties on Canadian softwood lumber under the terms of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal, Canadian Trade Minister ...
In real life, Canadian lumber producers are still predictably seeking to remove trade barriers in the softwood fight, which dates back to the early 1980s. But the influential U.S. Lumber Coalition ...