{"id":437,"date":"2003-12-06T21:03:54","date_gmt":"2003-12-07T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=437"},"modified":"2006-02-12T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T14:02:29","slug":"us-and-canadian-lumber-industry-end-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"US and Canadian lumber industry end dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span>t looks like that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.ca\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20031206.wsoftwood1206\/BNStory\/National\/\">softwood dispute<\/a> between the US and Canada will end soon: US producers have agreed to terms proposed by Canadian negotiators (<a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000704.html\">earlier<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>According to sources close to the Globe, the deal hammered out today gives lumber exporters duty-free access to the US market up to  a level of 31.5 percent. After that a $200 duty per thousand board feet lumber will kick in.\n<\/p>\n<p>(reminder: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?page_id=4\">disclaimer<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like that the softwood dispute between the US and Canada will end soon: US producers have agreed to terms proposed by Canadian negotiators (earlier). According to sources close to the Globe, the deal hammered out today gives lumber &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=437\">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\/437"}],"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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}