WTO upholds U.S. efforts to comply with tribunal recommendations in U.S.-Canadian Softwood...

A Panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has issued its Report in the U.S.-Canadian Softwood Lumber dispute after Canada claimed that the U.S. had failed to implement earlier WTO Reports. This is a proceeding under Article 21.5 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding, providing for a review of whether governmental measures taken after WTO review comply with WTO trading rules.

This dispute goes back to 2001, when the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) began an anti-dumping investigation which resulted in duties on the six largest Canadian exporters of softwood lumber