Canada-US Softwood Lumber Row Escalates With Filing of NAFTA, WTO Cases

December 7, 2017

The past couple of weeks have seen a series of developments in the long-running US-Canada row over softwood lumber trade. Canada has lately launched cases under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the WTO, respectively, to review new US anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on Canadian softwood lumber imports, whose final results were announced last month. 

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Topics: REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS (RTAS)

Regions: CANADA UNITED STATES

Authors: INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (ICTSD)


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