U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated on Tuesday that President Joe Biden isn’t anticipated to chop U.S. tariffs on Canadian lumber as a part of potential tariff aid he’s contemplating to struggle inflation.
“To one of the best of my information, they’re not into account, at the least as a part of the issues that the president is presently ,” Yellen stated of the anti-subsidy duties of 11.64% on most Canadian lumber imports.
She made the remarks to reporters throughout a go to to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe reservation in South Dakota.
On Monday in Toronto, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland advised to Yellen at a public discussion board that slicing the tariffs could be one option to ease inflation and finish a long-running commerce dispute between the North American buying and selling companions.
Lumber and constructing materials costs have soared over the previous yr, as demand for building surged because the COVID-19 pandemic eased.
Biden is contemplating scrapping tariffs on a variety of Chinese language items to curb inflation, however no resolution is probably going earlier than subsequent week’s Group of Seven summit, folks aware of the matter stated.
The cuts are probably substantial, however the scale has not been determined, based on the sources.
(Reporting by David Lawder; Enhancing by Leslie Adler)
