Canada weighs limits on US lumber exports to ease trade friction, British Columbia premier tells Bloomberg News
"One of the asks for years out of the American coalition has been a quota — that there's a fixed amount of lumber that gets to come from Canada," Eby told Bloomberg News.
"And I think that, for the first time, there's some willingness to have a conversation about what that could look like."
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