That is the title of the FT's editorial on the softwood lumber settlement. The FT concludes "In the end, the softwood sata shows the limits of international disputes procedures when the two parties are determined to ignore them and go on slugging it out." Was the law epiphenomenal here? Did it produce or affect the settlement?
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