As you well know, we've had a long-standing irritant with the U.S. with respect to softwood lumber. Given the most recent actions they've taken to reimpose tariffs, both anti-dumping and countervailing duty tariffs, against our softwood lumber producers, we have been challenging those measures under NAFTA and at the WTO. We have met with a number of successes in those efforts. We had been hoping that those kinds of successes would bring the U.S. back to the negotiating table so that we could resolve this for the longer term, but we have not seen a willingness on the U.S. side to advance that.
With respect to the new CUSMA, I think it's important to remember that any kind of softwood agreement is outside of that agreement. It was not envisioned by that agreement, nor was it envisioned by NAFTA. When we have the U.S. pursuing anti-dumping and countervailing duty actions against our softwood lumber producers, they have a legitimate right to do that under the trade remedy provisions of both NAFTA and CUSMA. We have the right to challenge those. In most cases, we've successfully challenged those measures, but the decision to try to negotiate something out requires agreement on the side of both parties.
We are ready to go to the negotiating table at any point in time to resolve this issue. We think it causes damages on both sides of the border. It increases costs, particularly in housing in the U.S., and is totally illegitimate in terms of the application. We're ready to go back to the negotiating table at any point in time. However, we have not yet seen any willingness on the U.S. side to do that.