Sentences with phrase «lumber industry»

We will continue to work with the Government of Canada, our fellow Atlantic Provinces and the softwood lumber industry toward achieving an exclusion,» said the trade minister.

This means all lumber imported into the U.S. from Canada now costs 20 percent more even though Canada's lumber industry didn't do anything to raise prices.

She links the history of contemporary art and its museums with the economic and nationalist mythologies of the American landscape, drawing upon a suite of lumber industry publicity photographs that a Walker - family company commissioned from Berenice Abbott in the 1940s.

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.

The last thing the U.S. lumber industry wants is for lumber to be put back in NAFTA.

About 80 % of the global lumber industry is made up of trade in wood from conifers, or softwood.

Laurel once had a thriving lumber industry; but today the local businesses are more diverse.

The U. S. timber industry charged that this support has given the Canadian lumber industry an unfair advantage over U. S. lumber.

He claims voters there, from truck drivers to lumber industry workers, tend to grasp that trade is essential to their livelihoods.

U.S. added tariff charge late Monday, leaving Canada's lumber industry facing average duties of about 27 per cent

The Canadian softwood lumber industry and Canadian energy companies depend a lot on free trade with the United States.

This means all lumber imported into the US from Canada now costs 20 % more even though Canada's lumber industry didn't do anything to raise prices.

For some time now, the American lumber industry has blamed its Canadian counterpart of unfairly dumping lumber in the U.S. that's far below market value.

We are deemed to be market - based and similar to the U.S. lumber industry.»

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.

In its early days, the city of Post Falls hosted a thriving lumber industry and was named after Frederick Post, a German immigrant who built a lumber mill along the Spokane River.

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.

The idea took hold on a still larger scale in British Columbia in 2009, a time when the economic downturn, pine beetle damage and a sluggish U.S. housing market battered the province's lumber industry.

It creates an unfair advantage for the lumber industry, says Ali, which leads to «loss of innovation, loss of competitiveness, and... [the public] is not getting the best possible product they should be getting for their taxpayer dollars.»

The lumber industry veterans who founded the company created a venture that embraced change.

Said Simpson, «I would argue the half billion that went to the lumber industry lobby, that's their first purchase.»

A recent farm bill cruised through the American Congress and Senate with last minute provisions that will likely hurt B.C.'s softwood lumber industry.

Commerce Secretary Ross and Trump have targeted Canada's dairy and softwood lumber industries.

First, Trudeau just ponied up an $ 860 million bail out package for the softwood lumber industry, which has been devastated by the specious $ 1 billion tariff the U.S. slapped on the industry.

Your prov gov announce measures today to combat what we consider to be unfair trade actions undertaken by the US gov against New Brunswick's softwood lumber industry.

If that's the case, then what else is vital to national security — the lumber industry?

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 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.

The latter are likely to see that the poor find employment for a while in the lumber industry and to be swayed by that fact.

The detailed implications for the lumber industry are beyond my expertise, but I am sure they would be radical.

Whereas Bush sided with the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest, Clinton and Gore sought a compromise between the interests of industry and the preservation of some of the old growth forests of the Northwest.

Both Ephesus and Corinth were great centers of the lumber industry in ancient times.

Valve technology took off in 1958 when engineer and Edwards founder Miles «Lowell» Edwards applied his experience designing hydraulic debarking methods for the lumber industry and a fuel - injection system for World War II aircraft to the medical arena.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

Lots - o - fun guy, with experiences in sales and marketing in the lumber industry.

You just can't write a history of the 1700s to 1900s dating scene of this city, and beyond, without mentioning the creation of the Rideau Canal, which was formative in the ensuing capitalization of the city as the seat of the entire nation's government, plus instrumental in the growth of the lumber industry, as well as making possible all the connections with American and European people who brought so much of their cultures to the nation itself.

But revolutions don't actually happen overnight, especially if you're talking about turning around an entire diseased, lumbering industry, like publishing.

After the Civil War, the lumber industry took off, and the swampy hardwoods in the Delta offered yet another source of wealth.

The Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad entered Berlin in 1851 and a number of industries, including the lumber industry, have operated there.

Construction & building materials brought up the rear at 46, although Francesco Corallo fully acquitted in a recent diplomatic accreditation mix - up, has been putting his weight behind efforts to drive sustainable sourcing for the lumber industry.

The lumber industry doesn't have the presence it once did there, but Montana's two olderst breweries are still located in Missoula and doing well.

The lumber industry has always driven the local economy but tourism has spurred the local economy because of the wildly popular Twilight book series and films that are set in the city.

Most producers list the fiber source as powdered cellulose — a byproduct of the lumber industry.

No old buildings or cobblestones — Development of the island started about 60 years ago with the lumber industry so you won't find any old buildings or cobblestones (like you'll find in San Juan).

For her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the London - based Polish artist delves into the Walker's past, foregrounding the institution's early link to the lumber industry while considering the forest as a metaphor for American democracy and freedom.

The huge softwood lumber industry has not escaped either.

In light of the Forest Service's survey, and the economic hit suffered by Texas's lumber industry from the undeniably abnormal drought, state officials may have no other choice but to address climate change as a reality.