{"id":65091,"date":"2024-02-03T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T13:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=65091"},"modified":"2024-02-03T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T13:08:28","slug":"ontario-opposes-softwood-lumber-duties-harming-forest-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/ontario-opposes-softwood-lumber-duties-harming-forest-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Opposes Softwood Lumber Duties Harming Forest Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trillium-1-e1706704249666.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33734\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trillium-1-e1706704249666.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>Graydon Smith, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, and Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued the following statement regarding the latest U.S. decision on softwood lumber duties:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ontario government is renewing its call that all duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports should immediately be removed by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Our government\u2019s plan to build Ontario depends on the forest sector. It generates close to $21 billion in annual revenue and provides more than 142,000 direct and indirect jobs, supporting families and strong communities across our province.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario strongly disagrees with the U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s recent decision, which signals that duty rates on Canadian softwood lumber exports are likely to increase in the final determination expected later this year \u2013 these duties are harmful and unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s softwood lumber producers deliver high-quality building materials to consumers on both sides of the border \u2013 and all parties face additional costs due to the burdens imposed by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario will continue to defend the workers, families and communities who rely on our forest sector and strongly oppose any trade practices that restrict our companies from fair competition in export markets.<\/p>\n<p>Together with provincial governments, the federal government and industry leaders across the country, we stand united to support the Canadian forest industry and free trade between our two countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graydon Smith, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, and Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued the following statement regarding the latest U.S. decision on softwood lumber duties: \u201cThe Ontario government is renewing its call that all duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports should immediately be removed by the United States. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":31649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 23:10:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65092,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65091\/revisions\/65092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}