The announcement last week by new Trade Representative Ron Kirk that the United States will place 10 percent tariffs on eastern Canadian softwood lumber imports could be good news, but then, again, it may not.
In the latest chapter of the dispute between the two neighbors that goes back to the early 1960s, our government has vowed to collect $54.8 million to make up for money it says Canada owes us.
The U.S. and Canada…