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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (528)	9/2/2002 8:39:52 PM
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Softwood: U.S. wants radical change America's lumber lobby wants more than 50 per cent of B.C. timber to be 'sold competitively,' Gordon Hamilton writes Gordon Hamilton Vancouver Sun Thursday, August 29, 2002 At meetings in Vancouver earlier this week, U.S. Department of Commerce Under-Secretary Grant Aldonas raised the prosect of dropping duties by having the commerce department publish a set of parameters that would define an open and competitive market in lumber. It would then be up to individual provinces to meet those parameters to have the countervailing duty removed. The U.S. position was not presented in the context of official talks and both federal and provincial officials say no settlement has been proposed. But the component elements for a settlement are there, Ragosta said. The U.S. industry would not need to be a part of any such solution but Ragosta said he sees the government proposal as an effective way of dealing with Canada's provinces, which have jurisdiction over resource issues and all have different forest policies. The U.S. industry has successfully argued before U.S. trade agencies that those policies confer a subsidy on Canada's lumber industry. The U.S. industry has already been talking about using the proposal floated by Aldonas, called "changed circumstances," as a way to solve the softwood dispute. "It's a mechanism by which one can deal with the provinces one by one, which is something we have said could be done all along if the provinces were willing to make the changes that are necessary," Ragosta said. "What is eluding us here is we need to see adequate reform. It is not clear yet whether the provinces are going to make the changes." ghamilton@pacpress.southam.ca