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The decision, which may yet be appealed, broadly contradicts the conclusions of a special Nafta panel that instructed Washington to refund $5 billion in tariffs.
[C3.] U.S. Says It Will Accept Nafta Decision on Lumber The Commerce Department said that it would accept a Nafta panel ruling in a long-running dispute with Canada and would substantially reduce hefty duties on Canadian softwood lumber.
Officials from Washington indicated that they would comply with a recent Nafta panel finding that the United States was unfairly prohibiting Mexican trucks from carrying goods across the border.
"How would Americans feel if we started getting living transgenic seeds that had been judged to be safe by the Cuban government but not the American government?" asked one member of the NAFTA panel.
You could write a book about the long-simmering lumber dispute, but a NAFTA panel recently ordered the U.S. to return $5 billion of collected tariffs to Canadian lumber companies.
A NAFTA panel ruled in February that the United States was violating the treaty by preventing the carriers from operating north of the border and by blocking the investments.
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He has also served on NAFTA panels and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitral tribunals.
The White House said Mr. Bush was motivated by a Nafta arbitration panel that decided in February that the Clinton administration's ban on free border travel by Mexican trucks violated American treaty obligations.
Barry Cullen, the executive director of the Coalition for Fair Lumber imports, said his group would probably appeal the ruling to a Nafta dispute settlement panel.
The American government has mainly failed to persuade NAFTA (and other) panels of its case that Canada subsidises lumber.
Under Chapter 19, NAFTA countries create a panel of judges from two countries to rule on anti-dumping and countervailing duty claims.
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