For more information about the U.S. trade laws and unfair lumber imports, please visit the following websites:

• U.S. Trade Representative
• U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
• U.S. International Trade Commission
• U.S. Embassy in Canada

You might also want to refer to the following studies:

Canadian Timber Subsidization

Richard Schwindt, "The British Columbia Forest Sector: Pros and Cons of the Stumpage System," in Gunston and Richards, eds., Resource Trends and Public Policy in Western Canada (1987).

David Haley, "A Regional Comparison of Stumpage Values in British Columbia and the United States Pacific Northwest," 56:5 Forestry Chronicle (1980).

C. Smart and I. Vertinsky, "Demand for Competitiveness Benchmarking in the Canadian Forest Products Industry," Forest Economics and Policy Analysis Project Working Paper No. 215 11 (July 1995).

Michael Mascall, i>Public Investment by Governments in the B.C. Forest Industry 1991/92 (Mar. 1994).

David Cox, Jack Lutz & William McKillop, "Examining the Market Value of Public Softwood Sawtimber in Canada" (July 27, 2001) (on file at the Department of Commerce, Inv. No. C-122-839).

David Cox & Carl Ehlen (Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc.) and Jack Lutz, Robert Clifford, David Edson & Donald MacKay (James W. Sewall Company), "Review of Department of Commerce Preliminary Determination Stumpage Subsidy Methodology" (Jan. 7, 2002) (on file at the Department of Commerce, Inv. No. C-122-839).

Greg Mastel, Stopping the Giveaway of Canada's Forests - Establishing True Free Trade in Softwood Lumber (Global Economic Policy Project, New America Foundation) (Oct. 2000).

David Shinn, U.S. Response to Canadian Softwood Lumber Imports, U.S. Dep't State, Foreign Service Institute, 1986-87.

Tom Green & Lisa Matthaus, Cutting Subsidies, or Subsidized Cutting? (BC Coalition for Sustainable Forest Solutions) (July 21, 2001).

Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, Log Price Comparisons in the Vancouver Log Market (Dec. 31, 2001).

Congressional Budget Office, Effects of Countervailing Duties of Natural Resource Input Subsidies (Staff Working Paper, Sept. 1985).

Sierra Legal Defense Fund, Interior Stumpage Report (Mar. 2001).

ITC Studies

Conditions of Competition in U.S. Forest Products Trade, Inv. No. 332-400, USITC Pub. No. 3246 (Oct. 1999).

Conditions Relating to the Importation of Softwood Lumber into the United States, Inv. No. 332-134, USITC Pub. No. 1241 (1982).

Financial Analyses

Hamish Kerr, "The B.C. Forest Industry: Major Change Is Coming" (June 18, 1998) (report for Goepel McDermid Securities).

Reid Carter, "Death of an Industry . . . ? British Columbia's Wood Products Industry" (Apr. 6, 1998) (report for First Marathon Securities).

Resource Information Systems, Inc., North American Lumber Forecast (Jan. 2002).

Resource Information Systems, Inc., Softwood Lumber Markets in the Wake of the 29% Final Determination in the CVD and AD Cases (Mar. 29, 2002).

Log Export Restrictions

Royal Commission on Forest Resources, Timber Rights and Forest Policy in British Columbia (1976).

C. L. Lane, Log Export and Import Restrictions of the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia Past and Present (USDA Forest Service Monograph) (Aug. 1998).

D. Zhang, An Economic Analysis of Log Export Restrictions in British Columbia (A World of Forestry: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Southern Forest Economics Workshop) (Mar. 1996).

R. N. Johnson, R. R. Rucker & H. Lippke, "Expanding U.S. Log Export Restrictions: Impacts on State Revenue and Policy Implications," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Sept. 1995.

J. Perez-Garcia, H. Lipke Fretwell, B. Lipke & X. Yu, The Impact on Domestic and Global Markets of a Pacific Northwest Log Export Ban or Tax (CINTRAFOR, Working Paper No. 47) (June 1994).

M. Percy, Forest Management and Economic Growth in British Columbia, Economic Council of Canada (1986).

M. Margolick & R. S. Uhler, "The Economic Impact of Removing Log Export Restrictions on British Columbia," Emerging Issues in Forest Policy, Apr. 1986.

C. Wiseman & R. A. Sedjo, "Have Controls Reduced Log Exports in the Pacific Northwest?," Journal of Forestry, 1985.

R. A. Sedjo & A. C. Wiseman, "The Effectiveness of an Export Restriction on Logs," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1983.

B.C. Special Log Export Policy Committee, Legislation, Policies & Procedures of Log Exports from British Columbia (July 1983).

C. Wiseman & R. A. Sedjo, "Effects of an Export Embargo on Related Goods: Logs and Lumber," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Aug. 1981.

D. Darr, R. Haynes & D. Adams, The Impact of the Export and Import of Raw Logs on Domestic Timber Supplies and Prices (USFS Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Research Paper) (Nov. 1980).