Sentences with phrase «softwood lumber disputes»

The Americans would punish us with a severity that would make the mad cow and softwood lumber disputes seem like trivial matters.

It's the sort of dispute resolution Canada has relied on, notably, in softwood lumber disputes.

The Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) between Canada and the U.S. is being renegotiated and Trump continues to threaten to rip up NAFTA, including Chapter 19, the dispute resolution mechanism under which Canada ultimately won previous softwood lumber disputes.

They are certainly familiar to us from the softwood lumber dispute, and anyone who doubts that Commerce can be aggressive when it comes to the aerospace industry should give Airbus a call.

Instead, we have incorporated an extra degree of caution in our forecast for exports relative to our January forecast, including the potential implications of the softwood lumber dispute.

Stephen Harper claimed the deal to end the softwood lumber dispute «quickly won support» in provinces like British Columbia.

In February 2006, after working on the lumber trade file for nearly six years, Ed Gillespie visited Vancouver to make the keynote speech at a forum on the softwood lumber dispute, NAFTA and American trade policy.

Another sticking point in Canada's trade relationship with the U.S. has been the ongoing softwood lumber dispute.

HGTV's Bryan Baeumler breaks down the decades - long softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the United States.

The report suggests Trump adviser Stephen Schwarzman's recent reassurances on NAFTA should not be taken at face value because the softwood lumber dispute might unleash a round of tit - for - tat tariffs.

[The Indigenous Network of Environment and Trade] argued that Canada's policy of not recognizing aboriginal treaty rights [in the Canadian - US softwood lumber dispute] was a form of a cash subsidy, a real cash subsidy, because the only thing that the

Osendarp has long distinguished herself in international legal circles as the Government of Canada's principal U.S. based lawyer in Canada's high - profile, ongoing softwood lumber dispute with the United States (frequently referred to as «the biggest trade battle on the planet»).

She was also co-lead in the multiple investigations, administrative reviews and related NAFTA, World Trade Organization (WTO) and Court of International Trade appeals connected to the «Lumber IV» softwood lumber dispute.

Ms. Osendarp has distinguished herself in international legal circles as the Government of Canada's principal US based lawyer in Canada's high - profile, ongoing softwood lumber dispute with the United States.

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.

Not exact matches

Canada has not always won disputes using that tool, the argument goes, and if a good deal on softwood lumber can be struck quickly, outside of NAFTA, maybe Canada could rely on the World Trade Organization mechanism and domestic courts to do the referring.

The government will also provide $ 191 million over five years to Global Affairs Canada and Natural Resources Canada to support softwood lumber jobs through litigation under the World Trade Organization and the NAFTA dispute settlement mechanisms.

One alternative for the Canadian government to consider is to reinvigorate the State - to - State dispute resolution system under NAFTA Chapter 20, as a replacement for the Chapter 19 panel review process, with some re-jigging to add special provisions to deal with trade remedy disputes such as the ongoing softwood lumber battle.

«If you also had an active dispute with softwood lumber during a Chapter 19 negotiation it would make it very difficult.»

Amid a bubbling trade dispute over softwood lumber and dairy with Canada, the Trump administration is now considering an Executive Order on withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement, two White House officials confirmed to CBS News.

Rep. Duncan told builders that he supports their efforts to urge President Trump to restart negotiations with Canada on the softwood lumber trade dispute.

They say a long - term deal on softwood lumber would be the best way to prevent the dispute from escalating.

Horgan is looking for a resolution in the softwood lumber trade dispute between Canada and the U.S.

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.

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 U.S. - Canada softwood lumber trade dispute, housing finance reform and tax - related housing issues were on the agenda when NAHB Senior Officers recently met with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in Washington, D.C.

At first blush, there's no reason government legal work can't be outsourced — Ottawa has paid law firms millions of dollars to litigate matters like the softwood lumber case and aboriginal disputes.