On January 30, 2023 Canada’s Standing Committee on International Trade adopted a motion to study again the United States’ anti-dumping and countervailing duties on certain Canadian softwood lumber products. Released Monday, their report recommends that the Government of Canada:

1. Continue with and enhance its engagement with the Government of the US. 
2. Continue with and enhance its collaboration with sectors in the US that support an end to the anti-dumping and countervailing duties. 
3. Appoint an official softwood lumber emissary for Canada to engage with US officials to enhance Canada’s efforts designed to encourage the U.S. administration to negotiate a resolution
4. Acknowledge that achieving an agreement with the US regarding trade in softwood lumber products ultimately will occur only through direct head-of-government negotiation.
5. Establish a strategy for investment in value-added transformations of wood within Canada.
6. Ensure recognition of the specific characteristics of Quebec’s forestry regime, which… has established
   a market-based system for the pricing of timber
7. Take immediate actions designed to ensure that products from private forests in Canada are not subject to U.S. anti-dumping or countervailing duties.