U.S. slaps 20.56% anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yawn, this again?

Didn't Canada win every single trade tribunal challenge on this exact same baseless complaint in the past?

[-] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 days ago

...if the industry could get production levels back to historic levels, it could help keep forestry-dependent communities vibrant into the future.

The entire industry is in decline because of over harvesting in the past. This is just wishful thinking, lol.

If the BC gov't wanted to save small communities that rely on logging there's an excellent report written at the NDP's behest on just how to do that. However those reccomendations would mean less profit for the large corporations hell bent on clearcutting every last tree and packing up their mills and killing towns.

So naturally this report and it's reccomendations have been completely ignored.

Tarrifs have never been the problem.

[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It would also be a massive hit to BCTS. The BC government agency that controls softwood harvesting and in turn provides income to the provincial government. Softwood and processing machinery being one of the major exports in BC that funds the government for decades now.

Probably has something to do with no reform.