Lumber Arbitration Victory for Akin Gump’s International Trade Practice
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(Washington, D.C.) Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Washington, D.C.,-based international trade practice scored a major arbitration victory under the U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement on behalf of the government of British Columbia (B.C.).
Along with co-counsel for the Canadian government, the Akin Gump team convinced the arbitration tribunal to reject all claims made by the United States that B.C. was underpricing beetle-killed timber and to rule that B.C. had not violated the anti-circumvention provisions of the agreement. The Akin Gump lawyers and co-counsel established that the U.S. government’s claims were without merit and that B.C. was fairly pricing the huge volumes of timber that had been damaged by the mountain pine beetle.
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