softwood lumber war
Subtitle: politics, economics, and the long U.S.-Canada trade dispute
By: Daowei Zhang.
Publisher: Resources for the Future
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933115559; 9781933115566
Subjects: Softwood industry -- United States; Softwood industry -- Canada; Protectionism -- United States; United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Canada; Canada -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A war between friends; title: Theory of economic policy formation; title: Lumber I: the first shot, 1982-1983; title: Lumber II: a new coalition and the memorandum of understanding, 1984-1986; title: The free trade agreement and termination of the MOU, 1987-1991; title: Lumber III: the war intensifies, 1991-1994; title: A temporary truce: the softwood lumber agreement of 1996; title: Lumber IV: the battle through litigation, 2001-2006; title: Lumber IV: the negotiation track, 2001-2006; title: Comparative political economy: the softwood lumber war and the newsprint tariff battle; title: An end to the war? Lessons learned and the prospects for the 2006 agreement.