Global Affairs Canada provides Softwood Lumber updates

Global Affairs Canada has provided information in relation to the softwood lumber dispute on its website.

The Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute has become one of the most enduring trade disputes between both nations.   Over the past 25 years, the United States lumber industry has frequently sought U.S. government restrictions on Canadian softwood lumber imports through the application of U.S. countervailing duty and anti-dumping laws – laws that allow the imposition of import duties when a U.S. industry is allegedly harmed by subsidies in the exporting country (countervailing duties), or by dumping, which is when a U.S. industry is allegedly harmed by imported products sold at prices that are lower than the cost of production or lower than prices in the domestic market (anti-dumping duties).