International Trade committee  Yes, that's right. The U.S. industry, at that time.... After a series of litigation losses, we essentially reached an agreement with them. It endured up to about 2013, and then it was extended for two years after that as well.

International Trade committee  On a point of clarification, when they moved NAFTA chapter 19 into the new CUSMA agreement, it became CUSMA chapter 10. When you're talking about one.... It's the exact same thing. Yes, we have constituted NAFTA panels right now. The first panel is going to hold its first heari

International Trade committee  I believe my colleague misspoke slightly. It's a U.S. statutory right that exists under the Tariff Act of 1930. Any U.S. industry has the right to petition the U.S. government—the U.S. Department of Commerce, in particular, and the U.S. International Trade Commission—to investiga

International Trade committee  With respect to WTO dispute settlement reform, there are active negotiations ongoing in Geneva to try to reform the system. The genesis of this was the 12th WTO ministerial conference, where members agreed, including the United States, that they would work towards the restoration

International Trade committee  Yes, that's right. If a dispute is appealed to the appellate body, it essentially, we are calling it, is appealing into the void. The dispute effectively goes nowhere because there is no appellate body. There is a group of countries, including Canada, that are party to the mult

International Trade committee  Thank you. As Mr. Fowler was explaining before, we have litigation in two different fora: the WTO, and before NAFTA and CUSMA panels. With respect to the WTO, the appellate body impasse, which we've all been working to try to resolve, has essentially meant that any case that i

International Trade committee  I think you said it very well.

International Trade committee  The anti-dumping duties in force in the current administrative reviews are a weighted average of the two largest softwood lumber producers' anti-dumping duty rates: Canfor and West Fraser. A weight average of their company-specific rates is taken, and that is applied as what's ca

Natural Resources committee  Quickly, then, on uncoated groundwood paper, through the WTO submissions we made in conjunction with our provincial partners, we were able to get a “no injury” determination. That was not appealed by the U.S. industry, and as a result, there are no duties there. On supercalende

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  I think Quebec has an excellent system, and we've made that point repeatedly. We're hoping to have a public version of the WTO decision in the early fall, just as an initial marker.

Natural Resources committee  That's an excellent question. Essentially, we have two systems of law in these two different fora. Under the WTO, the law is an international treaty. For the WTO agreements in particular—the subsidies and countervailing measures agreement, and the WTO anti-dumping agreement—trea

Natural Resources committee  I had a close colleague of mine who worked on that for the last agreement, and essentially all of this litigation had to be settled as part of the agreement. Part of the last softwood lumber agreement is a gigantic annex with all of the cases that were settled as a result of the

Natural Resources committee  Sadly, I've been working on this since Lumber IV. With respect to the duties, it's true there were approximately—if my memory serves me correctly—$5.2 billion in duties collected at the end of Lumber IV. There was a negotiated settlement, which resulted in the repayment of $4.2

Natural Resources committee  NAFTA chapter 19, and now its successor in CUSMA, chapter 10, is fundamental to our ability to deal with punitive or unfair U.S. or Mexican trade measures. Broadly speaking, what NAFTA chapter 19 and CUSMA, its successor, do is take judicial review under U.S. law away from the U.