NAFTA Panel issues decision in Canadian Softwood Lumber Products case reviewing threat of injury...

A binational Panel of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has issued a decision in the Canadian Softwood Lumber case. On May 22, 2002, the U.S. International Trade Commission had made a final determination in Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada (USITC Pub. 3509, May 2002, 67 Federal Register 36022), and issued antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of such products from Canada. Eventually, the countervailing duty rate was 18.79 percent. The NAFTA Panel finds that the Commission's "threat of material injury to the U.S. domestic softwood lumber in