Canada91裸聊视频檚 international trade minister says the United States appears to be pressing ahead with what she calls 91裸聊视频渦njustified91裸聊视频� duties on softwood lumber imports.
Mary Ng says the anti-dumping and countervailing duties the U.S. imposes on Canadian softwood lumber are little more than a tax on American consumers.
A raft of documents filed today by the U.S. Department of Commerce, just the latest in a series of reviews of the dispute, indicates the anti-dumping and countervailing duties aren91裸聊视频檛 going away.
The latest combined duty rates 91裸聊视频� which are preliminary and won91裸聊视频檛 take effect until after a final review expected this summer 91裸聊视频� range between 7.29 and 9.38 per cent.
Ng calls the results of the review disappointing to forest sector workers, businesses and communities on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
She says Canada will use all avenues to fight the duties, including litigation under NAFTA and its successor the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, as well as at the World Trade Organization.
91裸聊视频淲ith these preliminary results, the U.S. Department of Commerce has indicated its intention to maintain its unjustified duties on imports of Canadian softwood lumber,91裸聊视频� Ng said in a statement Tuesday.
91裸聊视频淐anada remains ready and willing to find solutions that allow for a return to predictable cross-border trade in softwood lumber. We are confident that a negotiated solution to this long-standing issue is in the best interests of both our countries.91裸聊视频�
The U.S. wants Canada to address the provincial stumpage fee regime that American producers have long complained gives producers north of the border an unfair advantage 91裸聊视频� the core issue in a dispute that has persisted for decades.
Ottawa, however, insists that such a fundamental change to the way a key Crown resource is managed is not on the table.
Lumber-producing provinces set stumpage fees for timber harvested from Crown land 91裸聊视频� a system that U.S. producers, forced to pay market rates, say amounts to an unfair subsidy.
