In a preliminary ruling October 16, the US Commerce department said it would impose a 15 per cent duty on Canadian softwood with a final ruling to come at the end of December. Prime Minister Mulroney termed the preliminary ruling unacceptable.

Date: 1986-10-16
Placeline: CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 14 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << ultimately will we will persevere first of all because we got a good case and secondly because what is going on runs against the concept both of history as common sense >>

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