Timber Trades Journal’s Post

"The U.S. Department of Commerce began imposing duties in 2017 on shipments of Canadian #softwood. The accumulated duties paid by Canadian softwood producers since 2017 are now valued at more than US$7-billion, including interest on payments held in trust by the U.S. [The] president of the BC Lumber Trade Council said Canadian sawmills have seen their market share of U.S. #lumber consumption steadily eroded. Amid Canadian #timber constraints, that share has fallen to an estimated 24%, compared with nearly 33% in 2016... Producers with Canadian head offices recently controlled 22% of total U.S. sawmill capacity... Over the past dozen years, Canadian-based companies have increased their presence in the [US South] and... production at their U.S. operations [are] exempted from duties... U.S.-headquartered lumber producers and timberland owners who complained about Canadian softwood ended up receiving 10% of the US$5-billion in softwood duties paid in the previous round of the dispute, from 2001 to 2006." #trade #tradedisputes #traderemedies Pilot Law LLP

IN TRANSACTION FOB ROTTERDAM /HOUSTON TTT. For find a real Seller is not with long procedures and bla bla, because if the seller discover that's buyer is genuine, the both parties will be agree and discuss all points in procedures in favour of find the solutions to dealing successuflly. Therefore you have to know some informations very important : ➡️ The refinery or seller connected to refinery as titleholder or allocation don't give any proof of product to buyer just if show his financial capacity or storage capacity (is up the seller's procedures). ➡️ The ICPO is just normal document can be issue from any trading company or any fake buyer even from broker, so the required document ask about the genuine seller is not ICPO. ➡️ The fake buyer never give more than ICPO, but if you ask him about TSA, BCL/RWA, or POF via MT199/MT799 bank to bank he will make a lot of excuses : - I give just to end seller or bank to bank. - My tank farm don't issue TSA - I want fist conference call wit end seller ➡️ If The procedures of the seller don't have upfront payment don't hesitate to connect with him if your buyer is real and genuine. ➡️ All buyer ask about POP before show his storage capacity is fake buyer, because if he pay his tank farm the fees of rent a tank (x number of days) the tank farm of buyer will ask the tank farm of seller about IPA / TTTIA for signed. Signed IPA / TTTIA between tank farm of buyer and tank farming seller means will be exchange of documents prove the availibity, specifications, and the non-sactionned of product. Therefore the genuine buyer don't mind to follow the seller's procedures but the fake he will just procrastinating. VERY INPORTANT TO KNOW : For calling payment upfront payment or advance is must be payed to seller or another unknown destination to buyer. But if the seller ask about payment the cost of rent tank from buyer to tank farm of buyer for he get valid TSR ( x number of days), here is not upfront payment because is addressed to tank farm of buyer not to seller. CONCLUSION : ✔️ GENUINE BUYER always has his own Storage or provide the Storage capacity via paying a fees of rent a tank from his tank farm.

NAVIGATING STAMP DUTY EXEMPTIONS IN VICTORIA At Barry Plant, we understand the financial considerations that come with purchasing property in Victoria. Stamp duty is a significant factor in these transactions, but did you know that certain categories of buyers may be eligible for exemptions? Click here to read more - https://bit.ly/3JPbkeL

Back to the recent UKSC decision in Sharp v Viterra. The decision is by Lord Hamblen, whose practice as a barrister included commodities cases. The buyer failed to pay for the cargos of Canadian peas & beans and so didn't receive them. The parties had agreed to GAFTA's Default clause, which says that the damages here should reflect the difference between the contract price and “the actual or estimated value of the goods, on the date of default”. The Sale of Goods Act (s 50) is similar and calls this “damages for non-acceptance”. Why is the measure of damages for non-acceptance (i) the contract price minus (ii) the value of the goods? (i) The purpose of damages for breach of contract is to put the non-breaching party in the position she would have been had the contract been performed. Had the contract been performed, the seller would have received the contract price. But (ii) it wouldn’t be right to make the buyer pay the full contract price when the seller still owns the goods. The buyer should get credit because the seller retains a valuable asset. As my colleague Andrew Summers and his co-author Adam Kramer KC explain in their now-classic paper (cited by Lord Hamblen) this damages rule reflects the principle of mitigation of damages. When the buyer has failed to pay, the seller is supposed to mitigate its loss by making a reasonable alternative sale. Whether or not the seller has actually done so, damages should be reduced as if the seller had realised the value of the goods.     Here, the parties had agreed a sale C&FFO Mundra. This means that it was the seller’s job to ship the goods to Mundra in India. The buyer failed to pay. The seller did make make alternative sales, but made them to related parties and so the sales didn't reflect the goods' true value. How to figure out the value of the goods to subtract from the contract price? The most obvious thing the sellers could have done would be to find a buyer who would buy on identical terms, i.e. C&FFO Mundra. But there was no evidence of such a market, so the arbitrators said damages should be calculated instead by figuring out the price of buying similar goods in Vancouver on the day of default plus the cost of shipping them to Mundra. The problem with this solution is that it bears absolutely no relation to the mitigation principle. The Supreme Court said the reasonable thing for the seller to have done would be to have sold the goods “ex warehouse Mundra”, i.e. to someone willing to pick up the goods in Mundra, after they had cleared customs, for the domestic Indian market. This was bad news for the seller because the government had since imposed tariffs on this class of goods, thereby increasing their value ex warehouse Mundra. But, even if the buyer gets a "windfall", the court said the measure of damages should account for this change in conditions. The arbitrators didn’t have evidence on the value of the goods ex warehouse Mundra, so the case has to go back to them.

In this op-ed for 'MHD', Stefanie Frawley from TMX Transform talks in detail about how Victoria’s foreign owner surcharge is hurting industrial tenants and how industrial property is a crucial part of any company’s supply chain. Read here: https://lnkd.in/g6STsMAZ #SupplyChain #Logistics #Australia #Warehouse #Property

A $3.25m penalty for anti-competitive land covenants highlights the Commerce Commission’s continued focus in this area. If your business uses land covenants as a means of restricting competitors, or has in the past (and those remain in play), it would be a good time to review that practice. Read our article to find out more Jennifer Hambleton Jovana Nedeljkov Amanda Spratt #landcovenants #propertylaw #property #anticompetitive

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Here is an interesting one - ENI 131 Commerce Way LLC v. T.L. Edwards Inc. ENI held a right of first refusal to purchase property from TL Edwards and brought suit to enforce those rights. In connection with that claim, ENI obtained a Notice of Lis Pendens - which is recorded with the registry of deeds and puts all potential future buyers of a piece of land on notice that there is a pending case where someone is claiming an ownership interest in that land. TL Edwards filed a special motion to dismiss ENI's case -- an option available when someone has obtained a lis pendens -- which was denied because the court determined that ENI's claim was not frivolous. The appeals court upheld that decision - so far - not very interesting - but the underlying claim presented by ENI is actually a novel one. The offer received by TL Edwards for its property wasn't a simple offer to purchase - it was a land swap. TL Edwards notified ENI of the offer and in response ENI offered to match the offer (thereby exercising their ROFR) but, of course, they couldn't match the land swap so they offered the cash value. As noted by the motion judge " There does not appear to be any Massachusetts authority squarely addressing whether the holder of a [ROFR] can meet the terms of an offer proposing a land swap for the burdened property by offering the burdened property's fair market value." That alone did not make the claim frivolous and the Appeals court did not answer this issue - so the underlying case is one to watch to see whether there will be some new law made in interpreting what is a valid exercise of a ROFR.

There may be a scenario where the buyer is getting a good deal and for the consideration which has a lesser value than the stamp duty value due to certain reasons/circumstances associated with the property. It may also be a scenario where the actual fair market value is less than the stamp duty value. Even otherwise, stamp duty value does not always reflect the true fair market value of the property. This is mainly due to the fact that stamp duty rates are fixed as per the area, and shortcomings in a specific property are not considered. #Compliancetips

There may be a scenario where the buyer is getting a good deal and for the consideration which has a lesser value than the stamp duty value due to certain reasons/circumstances associated with the property. It may also be a scenario where the actual fair market value is less than the stamp duty value. Even otherwise, stamp duty value does not always reflect the true fair market value of the property. This is mainly due to the fact that stamp duty rates are fixed as per the area, and shortcomings in a specific property are not considered. #Compliancetips