USA screwing Canada again (or trying to)

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Commerce Department says it's investigating how it calculates anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports to see if they're too lenient.

The review is to be conducted in the next 45 days and could result in changes to the way fees are determined.

"Should the department change its policy, as the coalition believes it should and will, the dumping duties on Canadian lumber would be expected to rise substantially," said the U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports. There was no immediate response from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa.

The announcement came just days after the department said it found new evidence supporting an average Canada-wide dumping rate of 8.38 per cent.

But last Friday, a NAFTA panel gave the U.S. 100 days to prove that Canadian exports threaten the American industry at all.

The panel, consisting of three Americans and two Canadians, issued a unanimous binding ruling last Friday saying the U.S. has failed to prove Canadian timber pricing has hurt U.S. producers.

The U.S. coalition says it won't be difficult to provide evidence to the NAFTA panel.

Since last spring, Canadian lumber companies have been hit with combined U.S. anti-dumping and countervailing duties that total about 27 per cent.

[Darth_Kitten]

1. Bush has been screwing Canada since he....

came into office. :( Or trying to....

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2. Take our name of the map

"ANd rest comfortably knowing, he can never find us" - Rick Mercer

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3. Good ol' NAFTA. Bush didn't sign it into law, but he sure loves it

NAFTA is pukedom through and through and does far more for the US than the other supporting countries.

I feel sorry for you. Especially when the oil crisis comes...

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4. That's why we have to

Rip it up now..this breach of contract is enough in my eyes

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5. Not the WHOLE US

NAFTA is only good for the top half of one percent of Americans. It does absolutely nothing good for the working middle class and the working poor.

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6. I mean the government body

I know most of you are nice