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Softwood Dispute: Negotiations end in failure
Canada and the United States are the world's largest trading partners, but there's one thing they've never agreed on: softwood lumber. The dispute dates back hundreds of years, but in the 1980s it turned nasty. The U.S. has slapped billions of dollars of fines on Canadian wood, jeopardizing thousands of jobs. The dispute raises serious questions about trade, sovereignty, and the real nature of Canada-U.S. relations.
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: March 22, 2002
Guest(s): Max Baucus, Mike de Jong, Jake Kerr, Ed Kulcsar, Ron MacDonald, Pierre Pettigrew, Charles Widman, Rusty Wood
Host: Brian Stewart
Reporter: Kelly Crowe, Paul Hunter
Duration: 5:29
Last updated: March 6, 2012
Page consulted on August 21, 2012
All Clips from this Topic
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The U.S. lumber industry demands heavy duties on Canadian wood.
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If at first you don't succeed...
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Barbara Frum puts Canadian and American ambassadors on the hot seat.
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Fifteen per cent tariff strips away Canada's competitive edge and show...
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Canadians are talking tough, but Americans are either divided or not e...
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Canada offers to tax its own wood, and give the U.S. a say.
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An NDP resources critic says Canada has been selling off our forests f...
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Canada's agreement with U.S. has Canadians angry. Americans wonder wha...
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Nakina, Ont. is one of 300 communities whose very existence is threate...
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After five years of voluntarily taxing its own wood, Canada says "enou...
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Stoking the fires of an old fued.
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Gordon Ritchie says the new 14.48 per cent import duty is an outlandis...
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U.S. loses final free trade appeal.
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Canada agrees to impose a national tax on lumber exports, heading off ...
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Canada has negotiated a truce with the U.S. Now it faces a civil war.
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Softwood dispute is "live or die" for historic sawmills in Darrington,...
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Another blow to the troubled softwood industry threatens survival of l...
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Pierre Pettigrew can't strike a deal to head off duties totalling almo...
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Rick Doman asks Ottawa to cover U.S. duties.
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The return of crushing import duties prompts a race to dump Canadian w...