WASHINGTON, D.C. – “The U.S. Lumber Coalition applauds President Trump’s imposition of an additional 10 percent tariff against unfairly traded lumber imports.  “Predictably, the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) is attacking President Trump’s decisive and pivotal trade law enforcement actions by continuing to peddle the false narrative that holding Canada to account for its ever-increasing and egregious unfair trade practices will somehow exacerbate the problem of U.S. housing affordability,” stated Zoltan van Heyningen of the U.S. Lumber Coalition. “What NAHB won’t point out is that lumber prices have declined since antidumping and countervailing duties increased to 35.16%… and especially not that their own profit margins in recent years have increased from 11% to almost 16%,” added van Heyningen….Enforcing the U.S. trade laws helps increase the U.S. supply of lumber to build American homes, all without impacting the cost of a new home, as demonstrated by data from the NAHB and Fastmarkets Random Lengths.