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Softwood Pulp Talks Stall

Filed 11 days before the report it anticipates.

Two clerks examine toilet-paper rolls in a storeroom.

Trade ยท in brief

Talks on softwood pulp have stalled for the ninth time in four years. A share of the pulp used in American tissue crosses the northern border, a figure the administration has begun describing in language usually reserved for ordnance.

The Canadian trade office says it has been trying to reach someone about this since Tuesday.