{"id":398,"date":"2003-11-15T19:27:18","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T22:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=398"},"modified":"2003-11-15T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T22:27:18","slug":"softwood-dispute-closer-to-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Softwood dispute closer to deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he Globe and Mail reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.ca\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20031115.usoft1115\/BNStory\/National\/\">Canadian negotiators are willing to give up some ground<\/a> and move some of their demands closer to the hard-line US softwood lobby. The Canadian counter-offer proposes that Canadian softwood shipments be allowed to enter the US duty-free until they reach a 32 percent share of the US market. Canada also proposed that the duties collected since 2001 to be returned to Canadian producers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years, Canadian softwood producers have been forced to pay the US government millions in punitive fees because Washington believed that provinces subsidized the lumber production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail reports that Canadian negotiators are willing to give up some ground and move some of their demands closer to the hard-line US softwood lobby. The Canadian counter-offer proposes that Canadian softwood shipments be allowed to enter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}