OTTAWA \u2014 Canada has dropped two legal challenges of United States duties on Canadian softwood lumber.<\/p>\n
The U.S. has long accused Canada’s softwood lumber sector of violating rules on anti-dumping \u2014 flooding a market with cheaper, subsidized products to disrupt a domestic industry.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Commerce Department announced plans last month to nearly triple duties on Canadian softwood lumber to just over 20 per cent.<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal first reported this week that Canada dropped long-standing appeals earlier this month of two U.S. anti-dumping reviews dating back to the previous decade.<\/p>\n
The U.S. undertakes administrative reviews each year to set the level of duties. Canada has regularly challenged those orders.<\/p>\n
Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman Dina Destin said in a media statement that the decision to drop the two appeals was made “in close consultation with Canadian industry, provinces and key partners, and it reflects a strategic choice to maximize long-term interests and prospects for a negotiated resolution with the United States.”<\/p>\n
She said Canada still believes U.S. anti-dumping duties on softwood lumber are unfair and Ottawa is still pursuing six other legal challenges on the matter.<\/p>\n
The move comes as Canadian officials signal they’re looking to address U.S. President Donald Trump’s sector-specific tariffs rather than pursue a larger trade and security agreement with the United States.<\/p>\n
Exemptions tied to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement have shielded the bulk of Canadian goods from tariffs so far in the trade dispute, though duties remain on steel, aluminum, autos and the softwood lumber sector.<\/p>\n
Canada dropped its counter-tariffs on most U.S. goods at the start of its month.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney last month promised an aid package for the lumber industry that includes $700 million in loan guarantees and $500 million for long-term supports to help companies diversify export markets and develop their products.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 23, 2025.<\/p>\n
Craig Lord, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Canada has dropped two legal challenges of United States duties on Canadian softwood lumber. The U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,26209,85097,2664,772],"class_list":{"0":"post-164459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-global-affairs-canada","13":"tag-legal-challenges","14":"tag-softwood-lumber","15":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}