The softwood lumber war : politics, economics, and the long U.S.-Canada trade dispute /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zhang, Daowei
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, [2007]
Subjects:	Softwood industry > United States. Softwood industry > Canada. Protectionism > United States. United States > Foreign economic relations > Canada. Canada > Foreign economic relations > United States.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

A war between friends
Theory of economic policy formation
Lumber I: the first shot, 1982-1983
Lumber II: a new coalition and the memorandum of understanding, 1984-1986
The free trade agreement and termination of the MOU, 1987-1991
Lumber III: the war intensifies, 1991-1994
A temporary truce: the softwood lumber agreement of 1996
Lumber IV: the battle through litigation, 2001-2006
Lumber IV: the negotiation track, 2001-2006
Comparative political economy: the softwood lumber war and the newsprint tariff battle
An end to the war? Lessons learned and the prospects for the 2006 agreement.