The United States is increasing tasks on Canadian soft wood, bringing the total to more than 35%

The United States has increased compensatory tasks on Canadian softwood wood, bringing the total to 35.19%.

The decision was announced on Friday by the American trade department.

Although the climbing of costs has been planned, they still led to a rapid conviction and alarm words of the industry and political leaders in British Columbia and Ontario, who say that it is still the last example of unjust treatment of the most important and most important international partner.

“Two words describe Donald Trump’s last decision to increase compensatory tasks on flexible Canadian wood wood: absurd and reckless,” said British Columbia Minister of Forests, Ravi Parmar, in a statement published on social networks.

“The addition of these additional tasks of tender wood … will only widen an accessibility crisis on both sides of the border.”

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Addressing CBC News, Parmar described the prices “an attack on forest workers who work hard in Canada”. He said that real people who paid for prices are American consumers who seek to build houses.

“It is nothing more than to prick themselves in their eyes; it will cost them big, because they count strongly on our wood.”

The British Columbia Council of Forest industries has described the new costs of “paralyzing” workers in Canada, while the British Columbia Bois Commerce Council stressed that the costs meant higher prices for construction companies in the United States which count on tender wood imports in order to build new houses.

“This decision will harm the communities on both sides of the border,” said the president of the Commerce Council, Kurt Niquidet, in a statement.

“What is necessary now is a stable and negotiated agreement that supports jobs, trade and affordability of housing.”

A similar message was shared by Ontario Forest Industries Association, which highlighted a report by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce which found that the prices have already increased up to $ 6,000 at the cost of building a unifamilial house in the United States.

The question of flexible wood has long been a point of discord between Canada and the United States, prior to the current presidential administration for several decades.

In Canada, the booming producing provinces have set so -called strain costs for wood harvested on crown, a system that American producers – forced to pay market rates – envisage an unfair subsidy.

The United States Ministry of Commerce has agreed and imposed duties reflecting its conviction that the Canadian product is sold at less value in the United States.

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Parmar claims that Canada systematically challenged American duties under the Canadian Canada Agreement (CUSMA), the North American Free Trade Court Agreement of the United States.

“We have won each time,” he added. “The challenge we have that time is that it is a president who does not believe in the rule of law.”

The climbing of tasks in the last decade has wreaked havoc on industry in Canada, and in particular in British Columbia, where hundreds of jobs have already been lost while the mills have closed and reduced, partly a response to a lack of access to the American markets.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced new support for industry, including more than $ 1.2 billion in funding to help diversify its markets and recycle affected workers.

Parmar said he expects almost half of this amount will take place towards British Columbia

“We are the greatest forestry with regard to Forestry in Canada in the long term, and I therefore expect the federal government to recognize it,” he said.

He said that funding will provide “a little comfort” over a period of time to react to tasks, but stressed the need to reduce dependence on the United States