Chrystia Freeland

OTTAWA — Canada will appeal last week’s decision by a WTO panel to allow the US to use “zeroing” to calculate lumber anti-dumping tariffs, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday. “We firmly believe that the U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber are unfair and unwarranted,” Freeland said. …Canada had launched the technical dispute with the WTO in 2017, saying it would forcefully defend its lumber industry, but last week’s long-awaited decision sided with the United States. The United States had suffered a string of defeats at the WTO over zeroing, a calculation method that was ruled to have unfairly increased the level of U.S. anti-dumping duties. …Last week, Canada said it was looking at ways to boost the effectiveness of its retaliatory tariffs against the United States.