Canada weighs limits on US lumber exports to ease trade friction, British Columbia premier tells Bloomberg News

July 16 (Reuters) - Canada is open to considering limits on softwood lumber exports to the U.S. to try to ease some trade friction between the neighboring countries, British Columbia Premier David Eby told Bloomberg News in a report published on Wednesday.

"One of the asks for years out of the American coalition has been a quota — that there’s a fixed amount of lumber that gets to come from Canada," Eby told Bloomberg News.

"And I think that, for the first time, there's some willingness to have a conversation about what that could look like."