After the US Commerce Department announced its preliminary decision on newsprint duties—over objections by the companies, industry and US newspaper printers and publishers—Canada filed a sweeping trade case against the US at the World Trade Organization. Here is a sample of the (latter) story headlines:
- Canada is challenging the Trump Administration’s tariff system (The Hill)
- Canada Attacks US Tariffs by Taking Case to WTO (New York Times)
- BC lumber producers welcome the appeal to WTO (BC Lumber Trade Council)
- Canada has just detonated a bomb: Trade relations plummet (National Post)
- ‘Broad and ill-advised attack’: Washington lashes out (Bloomberg)
- Canada is now playing hardball on trade with US — Good (Terence Corcoran)
Other headlines of note include: a Q&A on how Oregon’s cap and trade system will work; research on how ecosystem changes over 10,000 years sheds light on climate change’s impact on the world’s forests; the Valhalla Wilderness Society calls for more old-growth set-asides for the Mountain Caribou; and Tolko receives SFI certification.
Finally, some new (wood-impersonator) products at this year’s International Builders Show.
— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor