The United States denounced as flawed Monday’s unfavorable ruling from the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the long-standing dispute with Canada over duties imposed on exports of softwood lumber from north of the border.
The WTO’s appellate body said in its decision (pdf) that the U.S. Commerce Department made a mistake in calculating what it claims to be Canadian government subsidies of softwood lumber because it used a benchmark from one province in Canada and applied it to cover harvesting activity across the entire country.
