Related stories:Notley says Canada will have lots of allies if Trump goes after energy tradeOpening shot coming this week in fifth softwood lumber war between Canada-U.S.B.C. Meanwhile, Ontario named former federal trade minister Jim Peterson as its chief softwood lumber negotiator on Monday. Trump underscored the impending move by announcing it to a gathering of conservative media on the eve of the expected announcement. Industry analysts expect the combined duties, Monday's and the upcoming ones, to range between 30 and 40 per cent. "We are pleased with this initial outcome and are looking forward to the (next, anti-dumping) duties expected to be announced June 23," said Zoltan van Heyningen of the U.S. Lumber Coalition.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview that his department had reached a preliminary decision to impose the tax, the administration's first major trade action against Canada. Ross portrayed the action as a tough measure to punish Canada after President Donald Trump declared last week that "we can't let Canada or anybody else take advantage and do what they did to our workers and to our farmers."
Commerce is scheduled to issue a decision on the existence and amount of Canadian dumping of these products on . In Monday's decision, Commerce found that Canada has provided subsidies at a countrywide rate of approximately 20 percent to its softwood lumber producers. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. (file photo)Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. (file photo)WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement Monday in response to the preliminary results of the Commerce Department investigation, launched in 2016, of Canadian dumping and subsidization of softwood lumber:"Unfairly traded softwood lumber from Canada has for decades hurt mill towns and American millworkers in Oregon and across the country," Wyden said. Wyden had written a bipartisan letter with 25 other senators to the U.S. Trade Representative, urging strong protections for U.S. jobs and manufacturing in U.S.-Canada softwood lumber negotiations affecting 30 mills throughout Oregon. The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 created new tools to help ensure that U.S. trade remedy laws provide effective relief to workers and companies harmed from unfair trade, including U.S. softwood lumber producers.
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Trump administration launches punitive tariff on Canadian lumber
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview that his department had reached a preliminary decision to impose the tax, the administration's first major trade action against Canada. Ross portrayed the action as a tough measure to punish Canada after President Donald Trump declared last week that "we can't let Canada or anybody else take advantage and do what they did to our workers and to our farmers."
Wyden welcomes tariffs on unfairly traded Canadian lumber
Commerce is scheduled to issue a decision on the existence and amount of Canadian dumping of these products on . In Monday's decision, Commerce found that Canada has provided subsidies at a countrywide rate of approximately 20 percent to its softwood lumber producers. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. (file photo)Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. (file photo)WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement Monday in response to the preliminary results of the Commerce Department investigation, launched in 2016, of Canadian dumping and subsidization of softwood lumber:"Unfairly traded softwood lumber from Canada has for decades hurt mill towns and American millworkers in Oregon and across the country," Wyden said. Wyden had written a bipartisan letter with 25 other senators to the U.S. Trade Representative, urging strong protections for U.S. jobs and manufacturing in U.S.-Canada softwood lumber negotiations affecting 30 mills throughout Oregon. The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 created new tools to help ensure that U.S. trade remedy laws provide effective relief to workers and companies harmed from unfair trade, including U.S. softwood lumber producers.
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