The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that Canada will seek relief from softwood tariffs at a public hearing on Tuesday by challenging a United States ruling that American producers are being injured by Canadian lumber shipments. The Globe's Brent Jang writes that Canadian government lawyers will present their oral arguments at the one-day hearing in Washington, more than two years after the U.S. imposed new duties on Canadian softwood producers. The lawyers will be summarizing their arguments, condensing documents filed over the past 18 months under an appeal process of the North American free-trade agreement's Chapter 19 dispute-resolution mechanism. Under Chapter 19, Canada and the U.S. agreed to set up trade panels to settle disputes. Tuesday's hearing by the NAFTA panel will take place as Canada's forestry industry struggles during a downturn that has seen lumber prices dive and Canadian producers reporting disappointing financial results. In December, 2017, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in its final determination that Canada's shipments of softwood lumber are injuring the U.S. forestry sector. Canada is counting on the binational panel to overturn the ITC's determination.