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The timber industry.(Free Trade Agreement, 1992, United States-Canada-Mexico effect)
The New American
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April 16, 2007 |
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What is perhaps the most contentious trade dispute in modem history has been ongoing between the United States and Canada since the early 1980s over the dumping of government-subsidized Canadian timber into the U.S. market. The matter was already a crisis before NAFTA, but turned into a scandal that uniquely highlighted the trade agreement's destruction of national sovereignty after NAFTA took effect in 1994.
Beginning as early as 1982, U.S. timber producers charged that Canadian lumber was trading at artificially low prices in the U.S. market because Canadian timber is mostly owned by provincial governments that set stumpage prices at artificially low levels ...
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