{"id":78542,"date":"2019-12-09T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/u-s-cant-show-harm-canadian-softwood-industry-nafta-says\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:18:44","slug":"u-s-cant-show-harm-canadian-softwood-industry-nafta-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/u-s-cant-show-harm-canadian-softwood-industry-nafta-says\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. can\u2018t show harm from Canadian softwood industry, NAFTA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A joint NAFTA panel has given the United States three months to rethink its tariffs on imported Canadian softwood lumber but the saga for Canada\u2018s troubled softwood companies is far from over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The five panel members \u2014 including three Canadians and two Americans \u2014 said in a ruling Wednesday they couldn\u2018t agree with the U.S. International Trade Commission that there was evidence Canadian imports were causing injury to the U.S. industry. It gave the commission 90 days to reconsider the evidence it used to draw that conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\"This decision supports what Canada has been saying all along: U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber are unfair and unwarranted,\" said Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\"The panel\u2018s decision is an important step in the right direction in having these duties on Canadian exports removed and the sums collected reimbursed.\"<\/p>\n<p>Among the panel\u2018s findings is that the U.S. softwood industry was in the midst of its most profitable period ever, which made it hard to accept the conclusion that Canadian wood was harming it.<\/p>\n<p>Softwood, typically from pine and spruce trees, is used widely in construction and to make paper.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2017 the U.S. imposed duties averaging about 20 per cent on most Canadian softwood exports, alleging that Canada was both unfairly subsidizing its industry and then dumping wood into the U.S. at unfair prices. The American trade-commission determination that Canada\u2018s industry was causing harm came later that year.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth time Canada and the U.S. have fought over the same issues.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has multiple challenges under NAFTA and the World Trade Organization over the duties and the injury claim. Thursday\u2018s ruling deals with the latter, and if eventually the commission changes its mind, the duties would then have to be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Yurkovich, president of the B.C. Lumber Trade Council, said the last softwood lumber dispute took three rulings from the NAFTA panel to convince the commission to back down. In the meantime Canadian companies continue to pay the duties.<\/p>\n<p>\"We\u2018ve fought these battles before and we won,\" she said. \"They are the same arguments this time. But it takes a long time.\"<\/p>\n<p>British Columbia, home to the country\u2018s largest forestry sector, is hit particularly hard and in some ridings in the interior and northern parts of the province.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint NAFTA panel has given the United States three months to rethink its tariffs on imported Canadian softwood lumber but the saga for Canada\u2018s troubled softwood companies is far from over. 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