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Canada Considers Retaliatory Trade Actions Against the Latest US Softwood Lumber Duties
BREAKING NEWS MID-DAY FRIDAY: The Canadian government has found several Oregon business-assistance programs it says may constitute illegal subsidies. It is considering a process that could lead to retaliatory duties on imports from that state’s products, such as plywood, flooring, wood chips, packaging material and wine, according to several mainstream news sources mid-day Friday. Prime…
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US New and Pending Home Sales: March 2017
US sales of new homes shot up in March to the fastest pace in 8 months, the Commerce Department said April 27. Meanwhile according to the National Association of Realtors Friday, US pending home sales in March 2017 maintained their recent high level, but momentum slackened slightly in most of the country as dearth supply…
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Material Updates on US Softwood Lumber Duty
The much-anticipated Preliminary Countervailing Duty on a wide range of Canadian softwood lumber product exports into the US became known last week, but the announcement created more questions than it answered. Forest operators in the north scrambled to all available sources for answers about changes to paperwork and any new mechanism at the border, while…
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DOC Office of Enforcement and Compliance’s Position on CVD Rate to be used
Madison’s is becoming increasingly alarmed that — through sheer lack of clarity and basic instructions to US Customs Border agents — the US has a sneaky way of applying the highest announced softwood lumber duty rates to the widest range of companies: what is “all others”?? that’s not a legal definition. is the duty rate…
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US Customs and Border Protection Instructions re: CVD/CC Preliminary Determinations
The level of sheer disorganization and lack of clarity on this latest US softwood lumber duty is appalling even to Madison’s, where we are used to a cumbersome and unclear process at the beginning of every new Canada-US Softwood Lumber Dispute: The US. Department of Commerce’s Preliminary CVD Announcement was published in the Federal Register…
