A fresh hike in anti-dumping fees threatens to finish the job, but the real damage came from government stalling ...

The decades-long softwood lumber dispute between the US and Canada is escalating even before planned tariffs take effect: The US plans to more than double existing anti-dumping and countervailing ...

The decades-long softwood lumber dispute between the US and Canada is escalating even before planned tariffs take effect: The US plans to more than double existing anti-dumping and countervailing ...

One of the world’s longest-running trade disputes is the disagreement between the United States and Canada regarding softwood lumber. Last Thursday marked another chapter in this saga, when the ...

The United States on Thursday announced plans to slap hefty tariffs on softwood lumber imports from Canada, further raising tensions among the two nations amid contentious North American Free ...

U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber products are a tax on the American people. They make housing less affordable for Americans and hinder economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A man carries a bundle of wood on his payloader at lumber yard Friday Oct 14, 2005 in Armstrong, Quebec. President Donald Trump announced a tariff of as much as 20 percent on Canadian softwood lumber.

The Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA), which was effectively a tariff rate quota system that allowed in finite imports duty free and then subjected imports above those limits to extremely high ...

And they said they would sue, if necessary. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, imports of softwood lumber from Canada were valued at an estimated $5.66 billion in 2016.

A similar claim has been made three times in the last 20 years and never succeeded. True, Canadian softwood lumber--which accounts for about a third of the U.S. market--is a formidable competitor.