Sentences with phrase «softwood lumber industry»

The huge softwood lumber industry has not escaped either.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

But in Rhone's industry, forestry, the election has also stalled negotiations on the softwood lumber agreement between Canada and the U.S. — a deal that expired earlier this month.

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.

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.

Oregon is the nation's largest producer of softwood lumber and has had a thriving wood and paper products industry.