Sentences with phrase «canadian lumber industry»
The U. S. timber industry charged that this support has given the Canadian lumber industry an unfair advantage over U. S. lumber.
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He said the strong U.S. housing market has bolstered Canada's lumber industry, which is one of the few Canadian commodities doing relatively well.
But now it turns out much of the $ 1 billion the Canadian negotiators relinquished to the United States has been used to reward the American lumber industry and other friends of President George Bush's administration.
Mr. Pinette's work in the Canadian forest industry began 40 years ago as an owner and President of a family lumber business, Pinette & Therrien Mills Ltd..
Despite the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision to hit all other Canadian producers with countervailing duties of 19.88 per cent starting this year, many industry insiders and political leaders are hopeful Atlantic Canadian companies can be exempted from tariffs on softwood lumber exports to the United States.
If it weren't for the fact that Canadian producers have doubled their combined market share in China and Japan over the past decade, Canada's lumber industry would be even more vulnerable than it already is to U.S. protectionism.
The Canadian softwood lumber industry and Canadian energy companies depend a lot on free trade with the United States.
The Trump administration has made it known that the softwood lumber industry and Canadian livestock are both sources of interest, where the U.S. would like to seek more favourable terms of trade.
Given that the revenues from non-oil Canadian exports are dropping too (lumber, drugs etc.), it seems unfair to blame the nation's misfortunes on its one most notable industry, or even to categorize 2015's minor ebbs as true «misfortunes.»
The U.S. has added tariffs to Canadian lumber of roughly 20 percent over the last year, saying that Canada unfairly subsidizes its lumber industry.
After the Presidential election, the Trump administration threatened to add tariffs on Canadian lumber, on the grounds that the Canadian government illegally supports its timber industry.
The Canadian dairy and lumber industries are just a distraction.