B.C. Premier David Eby is ruling out new retaliatory measures against the United States after it slapped an additional tariff on softwood lumber but said his government will maintain countermeasures already in place.

“We think that striking out on our own is not going to be the best path forward,” Eby said in an interview on that aired Sunday morning. “But we’re maintaining the restrictions that we put in place."

Those restrictions include removing all American alcohol from British Columbia-run liquor stores and removing U.S. companies from public procurement.

“And we’re going to continue that until there’s resolution of this issue with the Americans at the table,” Eby told host Rosemary Barton.

On Tuesday, the U.S. slapped a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian lumber on top of a 35 per cen

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