Zoltan van Heyningen

WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Governor Healey recently echoed misleading talking points by Canada and the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) that US duties and tariffs against unfairly traded Canadian lumber imports cause housing pricing affordability issues. …The US Lumber Coalition is urging Governor Healey to reconsider siding with Canada and its well known and documented unfair and harmful trade practices against hundreds of thousands of US workers, thousands of US forestry dependent communities, millions of private U.S. landowners, and hundreds of US lumber companies. …”Governor Healey, like all US governors, should be for US industry and workers, and should understand the facts before taking sides with foreign industries,” stated Zoltan van Heyningen. …”The Governor and her staff would do well to understand that… it is Canadian softwood lumber companies who pay virtually all of the duties and tariffs, not U.S. consumers.