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By Mike Moffatt, About.com Guide to Economics since 2002

NAFTA softwood lumber dispute ruling put off

Sunday July 6, 2003
We're going to have to wait until the 17th of July to hear NAFTA's ruling on the softwood lumber dispute, according to this article in my hometown London Free Press. In my article "The Softwood Lumber Dispute" I look at the claim the American government is making that the Canadian government is unfairly subsidizing softwood lumber production. If the NAFTA panel finds that Canada is not subsidizing softwood lumber production, the U.S. government will have to eliminate the countervailing duties it has placed on imported Canadian softwood lumber,

To learn more about the history of the dispute and the issues involved, please see "The Softwood Lumber Dispute".

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November 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm
(1) Althea says:

You don’t know how much your article helped me for my project on “U.S, Canada softwood lumber dispute”. Everything else on Wikipedia or anything else just did not seem plain English to me. I could actually comprehend the words that you wrote!! Yay! I will not fail yet!!

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