Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:
Typical. America doesn't get her way, so she bawls her eyes out and throws a temper tantrum.
and this is unlike what canada does with softwood lumber how?
The US doesn't tax maritime lumber, but it does tax the lumber that the provincial governments essentially
gave the logging industries.
The Canadian government has had numerous solutions posed to it where it can either do what canadian governments have done in the past (put their own tarriff on it) it can agree to have the tarriff indexed to maritime lumber (perhaps the most fair) it can sell stumpage rights by auction or it can take the US to Court in a court which actually has enforcement power (US Court of International Trade). However, thats not what the government has done because the politicians find "softwood lumber" to be a better rallying call then to actually fix it.
So both countries just go back and forth to NAFTA and the WTO and only read the bits of the ruling which are favorable to their side, and deride the others for not following those rulings.
I don't like the tarriffs, I don't think the US should bother with them, but the tiresome propaganda that gets bantered around everytime the "trade" and "united states" appears in the same thread is annoying.
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