Sentences with phrase «by softwood»

The U.S. lumber coalition later excluded Nova Scotia from the ongoing anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, but Canada was still treated as one country and differences among practices by softwood lumber producers in the various provinces were largely ignored.

Not exact matches

With wooden frames, you have the option of hardwood or softwood, which, by the way, have nothing to do with the actual «hardness» or «softness» of the wood.

He was quoted by the Canadian Press as telling delegates that he saw «a window» of opportunity, «somewhere between Memorial Day [May 29] and the Fourth of July,» when Canada and the U.S. might reach a new softwood agreement.

«Given that home builders are already grappling with 20 percent tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber and that the price of lumber and other key building materials are near record highs, this announcement by the president could not have come at a worse time.

The question is, will the latest round of U.S. duties force Canada to settle for a new softwood agreement with terms picked by the Americans?

The U.S. Softwood Lumber Situation in a Canadian - American Perspective, Canadian - American Committee 15, by Sperry Lea.

Canada's argument that U.S. countervailing duties on softwood are improper has been backed by the World Trade Organization and a bi-national panel under NAFTA's dispute settlement provisions.

Disputes over the softwood lumber trade — which applies to wood originating from conifers, about 80 % of the global lumber industry — have plagued bilateral relations between the two states since the 1980s, and have most recently been addressed by the 2006 agreement.

The provincial government will be working with Ottawa when it comes to litigation over what they both consider unfair duties by the U.S. government on softwood lumber exports from Canada.

However, as illustrated by the US's imposition of 20 % countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber in April 2017, along with the recent Boeing / Bombardier dispute, Canada is unlikely to escape the «America First» trade policy unscathed.

The price of softwood lumber rose by 2.3 % in December, while prices paid for ready - mix concrete, gypsum products, and OSB all fell, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

«However, because of their efficiency in degrading wood, brown rot fungi have come to dominate, particularly in degrading softwoods,» Goodell says, and they now dominate by recycling approximately 80 percent of the softwood biomass carbon in the world, found mostly in the great forests of the northern hemisphere.

Other conifer forest types found in Montana are spruce - fir forest (primarily composed of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), as well as forests dominated by western larch (Larix occidentalis), grand fir (Abies grandis), limber pine (Pinus flexilis), and miscellaneous western softwoods.

Northwest US and Canadian softwoods are being clearcut so that we can continue our strange habit of building houses out of two by fours.

Both hardwood and softwood trees can be uprooted by gusts around 90 mph.

Eliminating the Property Transfer Tax (PTT) in the areas hardest hit by forest fires and the softwood lumber dispute would stimulate economic recovery, the...

Eliminating the Property Transfer Tax (PTT) in the areas hardest hit by forest fires and the softwood lumber dispute would stimulate economic recovery, the British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) says in a pre-budget submission to the provincial government.

Annual softwood lumber price growth decelerated by 8.7 percentage points to 8.0 %.

The boards are created by layering a softwood or plywood base with a wood or wood - effect top layer.

Your property can be transformed by restoration and refinishing of an existing hard or softwood floor.

It's also environmentally friendly, due to specialist engineering that modifies sustainably sourced softwoods by heating them with furfuryl alcohol, an agricultural by - product.