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Selected Works of Professor Nisha Malhotra
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Estimating Export Response in Canadian Provinces to the US-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement
Canadian Public Policy (2006)
  • Nisha Malhotra, University of British Columbia
  • Sumeet Gulati, University of British Columbia
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Abstract
We estimate the degree of trade diversion from provinces named under the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) to provinces not named. Our regression results indicate that the SLA had a significant impact on the exports of non-named SLA provinces. Controlling for other factors, the SLA by itself would have increased exports from these provinces four times. The corresponding effect for the provinces named in the SLA is estimated at minus 5 percent. This decrease is not, however, statistically significant.
Keywords
  • softwood lumber,
  • canada lumber export,
  • wood industry,
  • US tariff on lumber
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Publication Date
2006
Citation Information
Nisha Malhotra and Sumeet Gulati. "Estimating Export Response in Canadian Provinces to the US-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement" Canadian Public Policy Vol. 32 Iss. 2 (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nisha_malhotra/4/