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A Study of the Effects of the Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement

Author: ​Jun Fukuda ​AbstractThe trade of softwood lumber between the United States and Canada is one of the major forest products trade flows in the world. Since 1996, exports from the four major softwood lumber producing provinces in Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec) into the US have been regulated by the voluntary export restraint […]

The Role of Exchange Rates in Canadian – U.S. Lumber Trade

Authors: Darius M. Adams, Bruce A. McCarl, and Lalehrokh Homayounfarrokh ​Executive SummaryThis paper employs graphical analysis, simple statics and an econometric model to examine the impacts of exchange rate on consumption, production, prices and bilateral trade flows I the Canadian—U.S. lumber market.  Based on annual data for the 1950-1983 period, the econometric model is comprised […]