Thank you for the question.
The softwood lumber dispute is one which of course has gone on for decades, and any number of trade lawyers have sent their kids to college in the various iterations of it. From the perspective of the U.S. business community, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce specifically, it's a dispute that at times has been difficult for us to wrestle with, because it pits the interests of producers against those of consumers.
I've been with the U.S. Chamber for about 18 years, and my hope over the years has been that over time we will see greater integration and less conflicts in this aspect of the relationship. That is something we can say, for instance, in the steel sector. There were more trade remedy actions in the steel sector 20 years ago than there are today. Today, the North American steel industry is really quite integrated, and there's less of that kind of tension.
We're not there yet. We're hopeful that negotiators can find a path forward that can address this matter and do so quickly. I think there's a hope out there that doing so in the near term could provide a boost of goodwill at this point in the NAFTA negotiations.