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Provinces Urge Canadian Government to Negotiate SLA
Cabinet ministers in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are expressing concern that Canada and the United States haven’t started renegotiating the softwood lumber trade agreement, according to Canadian Press Wednesday. As well, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has called for Canadian officials to get to the negotiating table, said Globe and Mail October 11.…
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Provinces Urge Canadian Government to Negotiate SLA
Cabinet ministers in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are expressing concern that Canada and the United States haven’t started renegotiating the softwood lumber trade agreement, according to Canadian Press Wednesday. As well, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has called for Canadian officials to get to the negotiating table, said Globe and Mail October 11.…
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US Paper Duty and Tariff Against Canada
Canadian paper mills that produce glossy paper products will continue to pay cost-ly duties levelled against them last summer by the US Department of Commerce, reported CTV News Wednesday. In a decision released Wednesday, the department said it has determined that US imports of supercalendered paper from Canada have received countervailable subsidies ranging from 17.87…
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US Housing and Real Estate Situation
By: Stephen Kim, Barclays’ US building products and home-building-equity analyst via Business Insider “At this point, it has become hard to overlook housing’s dismally slow pace of recovery. Sure, home prices are back to historic highs and housing-market activity continues to pick up, but many important aspects of the housing market are depressed. The housing…
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Home Building and Selling 2015, USA
“In hot real estate markets in the US, what’s happening is rental housing is being built to profit from rising rents and luxury housing is being built to meet the demand from wealthy overseas buyers,’ warns Adam Taggart in Market Oracle October 10. Elsewhere, in a chilling 88-page industry note, Barclays analyst Stephen Kim warns…
