stumpage
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- noun
- /ˈstʌmpɪdʒ/
- Specialized
- In Ontario, forest companies are required to pay a stumpage fee to the provincial government as a royalty for trees cut down on Crown land.
- stumpage fee
- stumpage rate
- provincial stumpage
Examples
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In that case, the industry's concern was that provinces in Canada, particularly western Canada, were charging a lower stumpage fee than U.S. governmental entities, particularly the U.S. federal government.
Academic text (2000) -
These mills cut wood in the United States, paying American stumpage rates and bringing the wood back to Canada where it is turned into lumber in Canadian mills.
Academic text (2000) -
Yes, there is already a cross-border agreement for cutting and paying the other jurisdiction's stumpage rates.
Academic text (2000) -
In Lumber I in 1983, the Commerce Department agreed and said that under U.S. law at that time, stumpage was not countervailable because it was generally available to all within the sector that wished to acquire timber.
Academic text (1997) -
In Ontario, forest companies are required to pay a stumpage fee to the provincial government as a royalty for trees cut down on Crown land.
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Yes, there is already a cross-border agreement for cutting and paying the other jurisdiction's stumpage rates.
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These mills cut wood in the United States, paying American stumpage rates and bringing the wood back to Canada.
Synonyms
A right to take wood from land for heating or repairs
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stumpage comes from stump ('a tree left after cutting') plus the ending -age, which often marks a fee or cost, as in postage. So stumpage is the payment you give for the right to cut trees on land.