The Softwood Lumber Dispute and Canada-U.S. Trade in Natural Resources
Author : Michael Percy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780886450571
Author : Michael Percy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780886450571
Author :
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 0774851457
"This expanded and updated edition of Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy examines policy making in one of the most significant areas of activity in the Canadian economy - natural resources and the environment. It discusses the evolution of resource policies from the early era of exploitation to the present era of resource and environmental management, including the Kyoto Protocol. Using an integrated political economy and policy perspective, the book provides an analytic framework through which ideological perspectives, administrative structures, and substantive issues are explored." --Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Melody Hessing
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0774840986
This book provides an analytic framework from which the foundation of ideological perspectives, administrative structures, and substantive issues are explored. Departing from traditional approaches that emphasize a single discipline or perspective, it offers an interdisciplinary framework with which to think through ecological, political, economic, and social issues. It also provides a multi-stage analysis of policy making from agenda setting through the evaluation process. The integration of social science perspectives and the combination of theoretical and empirical work make this innovative book one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadian natural resource and environmental policy to date.
Author : Daowei Professor Zhang
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2007-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1936331586
As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada for nearly 20 years. Dubbed the 'Softwood Lumber War,' the conflict enveloped politicians and business leaders on both sides of the border and placed strains on the historically close economic and political relations between the two countries. This book is an unprecedentedly detailed evaluation of how the conflict began and how it was sustained for such a long period of time. The book considers the implications that may follow from the 2006 agreement between the nations, and the broader lessons that might be learned about international trade conflicts. The early 1980s was a difficult time for U.S. lumber producers. Finding their domestic market share in decline, they requested restrictions on Canadian lumber imports. Alleging that the Canadian producers were being subsidized, they eventually secured a 15 percent export tax on Canadian lumber in 1986. A long series of trade battles followed against a background of shortages in the U.S. timber supply, changing international markets, and the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization. Canada and the United States are the world's largest trading partners, but, as Zhang demonstrates, it is a relationship in which domestic pressure groups, different institutional structures within each government, and differences in the relative economic power of each country remain extremely important determinants of foreign policy. The fact that the softwood lumber dispute has taken so long to resolve-and the prospect that the 2006 agreement has the potential to be undone by continuing litigation and trade friction-raise important questions about international relations in a world that is supposedly moving toward free trade.
Author : Russell S. Uhler
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774844647
This book illuminates the major economic and political factors that have led to the development of a particular pattern of trade in forest products, and it examines and compares the legal structures within which this trade takes place. Standard economic and political methods of analysis are used to study the history of this trade, including such recent developments as the Free Trade Agreement. Several of the chapters focus on two recent trade disputes involving Canadian exports of shakes and shingles and of softwood lumber to the United States. These disputes are instructive for understanding not only the politics of trade but also important economic issues such as the measurement and impact of timber subsidies. In addition, the authors consider the factors affecting foreign market share, and the burden of tariffs and export taxes.
Author : Michael Howlett
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802081759
Arguing that the complexity of policy-making in the forest sector has led many analysts to focus exclusively on specific sectoral activities or jurisdictions, this collection of essays offers a simplifying framework of analysis.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Arye L. Hillman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136455493
This book examines how trade policy is determined in democratic countries, and illustrates how protectionist policies are engendered by political processes that allow groups to pursue their own interests.
Author : Thomas A. Hockin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739105252
This text offers an insight into the political challenges to free trade and US trade policy and explores the fragile ecosystem of multinational trade alliances in the face of insurgent political protests from both the left and the right. It also takes a close look at WTO obstacles such as the failure of member countries to follow dispute settlement arrangements; conflict surrounding the imminent membership of China; and the mercurial administration of trade law in the US. The author presents a case for the incoherence of American trade policy but also analyzes the systematic problems involved in free trade and suggests solutions.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Trade, Tourism, and Economic Development
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :