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In a paper for the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Canada Institute, Eric Miller argues that Canada should address British Columbia’s highly distortionary log export restrictions in the softwood lumber negotiations with the United States. If done properly, this reform could catalyze the process of developing an enduring Canada-U.S. agreement on softwood lumber.

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Eric Miller tells Paul Vieira of the Wall Street Journal that President-elect Trump knows that Canada will come to the NAFTA negotiating table. Expect asks on supply management and softwood.

Globe and Mail’s Barrie McKenna highlights Eric Miller’s Woodrow Wilson Center paper From Log Export Restrictions to a Market-Based Future: Towards an Enduring Canada-U.S. Softwood Agreement (link to paper: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/commentary-log-export-restrictions-to-market-based-future-towards-enduring-canada-us) The article highlights the highly distortionary nature of British Columbia’s log export restrictions. If properly reformed, it could catalyze an enduring softwood lumber agreement.

In a forthcoming paper for the Woodrow Wilson Center's Canada Institute, Eric Miller argues that Canada should address British Columbia's highly distortionary log export restrictions in the softwood lumber negotiations with the United States. If done properly, this reform could serve as the key to an enduring agreement to end the bilateral softwood lumber dispute once and for all.

Download the paper here