Title: The softwood lumber war : politics, economics, and the long U.S.-Canada trade dispute /
Authors: Zhang, Daowei
Publisher: Resources for the Future,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Softwood industry United States.; Softwood industry Canada.; Protectionism United States.; United States Foreign economic relations Canada.; Canada Foreign economic relations United States.
Contents: A war between friends -- Theory of economic policy formation -- Lumber I: the first shot, 1982-1983 -- Lumber II: a new coalition and the memorandum of understanding, 1984-1986 -- The free trade agreement and termination of the MOU, 1987-1991 -- Lumber III: the war intensifies, 1991-1994 -- A temporary truce: the softwood lumber agreement of 1996 -- Lumber IV: the battle through litigation, 2001-2006 -- Lumber IV: the negotiation track, 2001-2006 -- Comparative political economy: the softwood lumber war and the newsprint tariff battle -- An end to the war? Lessons learned and the prospects for the 2006 agreement.