Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was interviewed on Montana Public Radio about the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber trade.
But that trade deal didn’t work, according to Matt Gold, who teaches law at Fordham University. Gold also served as the Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber talks. He says the expired softwood lumber agreement required the U.S. to trust that Canadian officials were accurately imposing the export tax.
“Although the national government in Ottawa has acted with good faith in respect to the United States in most trade issues, the provincial governments, together with the provisional lumber industries, which were responsible for administering the softwood lumber agreement, acted with less good faith. And under the softwood lumber agreement, the United States didn’t have the ability to monitor or to audit the process by which they determined export taxes would be,” Gold says.