Economics

WTO Delivers Mixed Ruling in U.S.-Canada Lumber Dispute

  • Countries are also at odds over steel and aluminum tariffs
  • U.S. and Canada have 60 days to appeal the WTO ruling
Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg
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The World Trade Organization on Tuesday said the U.S. violated international trade rules in the way it calculated tariffs on Canadian imports of softwood lumber in a key dispute ruling published on the WTO website.