Americas: Canada: Lumber Pact to Be Signed
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The United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab will sign a deal in Ottawa today that is intended to end a long-running dispute over Canadian lumber exports, the trade representativeÂs office said. Ms. Schwab and David Emerson, CanadaÂs minister for international trade, are scheduled to give final approval to the softwood lumber agreement, which would halt years of litigation over CanadaÂs claims that the United States unfairly slapped duties on lumber Canada. In July, American and Canadian officials gave initial approval to a pact that requires the United States to pay back about $4.3 billion in duties on wood imports, or about 80 percent of the total duties it collected during the dispute.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A2 of the Dec. 1, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. VIENTIANE, Laos -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations yesterday agreed to work
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Canadian telecom giant Nortel Networks and South Korea's LG Electronics said they had agreed to establish a joint venture on telecom equipment and networking solutions.
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KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - The federal government will seek a flexible medicare-reform agreement that could include individual deals with provinces, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS -- Canada and the European Union said yesterday they will co-operate to ensure the maximum effect of sanctions they plan to impose on the United States in retaliation for US steel industry protection measures.
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By Bloomberg News. The Bush administration yesterday appealed a trade panel&#39;s decision that effectively struck down United States tariffs on $4.6 billion a year of Canadian lumber.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada is moving a couple more pieces in the chess game that its softwood lumber trade battle with the United States has become.
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BANGKOK: The global treaty regulating trade in threatened wildlife moved to protect ramin, the Asian hardwood whose forests and their inhabitants have been devastated by rampant commercial logging.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (CP) - Canada hopes to nail down a free-trade treaty with South Korea that could offer major inroads into the booming Asian market, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada has joined a coalition of developed countries delivering relief to tsunami-struck south Asia.
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Canada, the United  States and Mexico pledged to co-operate on developing energy  technology on Monday in an agreement that could reduce trade  barriers to alternative energy development.
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Alcan Inc. has agreed to sell its ferroalloy division to a Spanish company for more than â¬100-million ($164.1-million). Montreal-based Alcan said yesterday it had agreed on terms
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Canada will do its best to ensure that the United States and other major polluting nations currently outside the Kyoto climate change accord join a new global campaign to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Wednesday.
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Canada and Nigeria agreed to terms under which the Canadian International Development Agency is to provide 24.9 million Canadian dollars (20.4 million US) for health projects in the west African country.
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Eight nations with Arctic territory agreed Wednesday to fight glacial melting and other effects of climate change in the region, though they declined to endorse any new steps
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A NAFTA panel has ruled in Canada&#39;s favour for the third time in the softwood lumber dispute and ordered the US government to stop fighting the rulings
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin reached a last-minute agreement with opposition leaders Thursday night to avoid a no-confidence vote in Parliament that could have brought an end to his government and new elections.