Canada is challenging the U.S. decision late last year to maintain duties on exports of Canadian softwood lumber, Trade Minister Mary Ng said in a statement on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) decided last November to maintain anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber.
Ng stated that Canada initiated the challenge within the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement. The longstanding dispute between the two nations over lumber exports, characterized by U.S. producers as unfairly subsidized, has persisted for decades.
