Mark Warner Quoted by Dow Jones About Canada’s Decision to Abandon its USMCA Chapter 10 Challenges to Certain U.S. Softwood Lumber Duties

Mark Warner was quoted in the Dow Jones Newswires about Canada’s “strategic decision” to abandon is USMCA challenges to the first and second administrative reviews of the U.S. anti-dumping duty orders on Canadian softwood lumber to maximize prospects for a negotiated resolution.. (September 22, 2025) Mr. Warner is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has practiced in Toronto, Washington, DC and New York and has advised governments on trade policy and trade negotiations and previously worked on trade and competition issues as counsel in the OECD Trade Directorate. Mark Warner is also a partner in Pilot Law, a Toronto-based natural resources firm, who has worked on softwood lumber cases in private practice.

Mr. Warner was Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade and advised on trade disputes (including softwood lumber and the Green Energy Act), on several NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State arbitrations. Mr. Warner also led Ontario’s legal team for trade negotiations including the Canada-U.S. Agreement on Government Procurement and the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations and led the Province’s legal team for the insolvency / restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler.

Mark is a past Chair of the International and Economics Committees of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law as well as a member of the Section’s Task Forces on Competition Policy and NAFTA and Antitrust in the Global Economy. In addition to being a lawyer, Mr. Warner has a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Toronto. He was co-author of a leading Canadian trade law treatise.