The U.S. hardwood industry appreciates your focus on strengthening the U.S. economy through increased manufacturing capacity, the tax code, strong Job growth and lowering inflation. …However, the industry is extremely concerned about the impact a resurgence of a trade war through the wide imposition of tariffs on products imported to the U.S. will have on the industry. We are in danger of losing critical mass in primary wood processing should our global markets impose counter tariffs or other retaliatory actions on imports of U.S. hardwood. The U.S. hardwood industry was devastated by the trade war with China between 2018 and 2020. …Since tariffs were removed in 2020, the Chinese market for US hardwoods has remained at about half 2017 levels, demonstrating the lasting damage of trade disruption. …Should tariffs be imposed more broadly on U.S. trading partners and incur the same response from multiple governments, the U.S. hardwood industry would cease to exist as we know it.