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We must see that we do indeed have allies in the U.S., such as the group called American Consumers for Affordable Homes, which has much in common with the Canadian Free Trade Lumber Council.

It is now up to the other partners in the negotiations, and in particular Japan and the US, to present their plans for eliminating two of the main obstacles to normal competition existing in these two countries, ie in Japan, the home credit schemes under which aid is granted to national shipowners for the building and conversion of ships and, in the US, the Jones Act and similar legislation which require vessels engaged in US domestic and coastal trades to be US ...[+++]-built. - 2 - The Japanese home credit scheme has a grant equivalent element which has been calculated at between 5 and 6 %. Experience has shown that investment support granted to national shipowners for the building of ships has always, even if not legally prescribed, benefited national shipbuilding. This has been recognised inside the Community by the inclusion of such support when calculating the overall aid intensity which must not exceed the 13 % and 9 % ceiling As far as the Jones Act is concerned, the exclusion of foreign competitors from bidding for the construction of vessels to be used in US "domestic" trade is not so much trade distorting as trade destroying.

Over the past few months, the Conference Board of Canada published three reports of interest to this committee: Adopt a More Strategic Approach to International Trade; If We Can Fix It Here, We Can Make It Anywhere: Effective Policies at Home to Boost Canada's Global Success; and Canada's Changing Role in Global Supply Chains.