Friday, September 16, 2016
Canada has not yet managed to settle a long-running dispute with the United States over softwood lumber exports and is ready to resort to litigation if necessary, Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday.
Freeland, speaking to reporters after talks with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and industry representatives in Washington, said increasingly protectionist trade sentiment in the United States was making the talks more complex.
"This is a notoriously, historically tough and complicated issue to resolve. There are still some fundamental areas of differing points of view between Canada and the United States," Freeland said.
This has been excerpted from the 14 September 2016 edition of Reuters Canada and is available in its entirety at:
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAKCN11K2Q3
