Canada’s massive excess lumber capacity sustained by billions of dollars of government subsidies continues to drive Canada’s harmful and unfair trade practices in softwood lumber. …In the state of Maine and the nearby Canadian region, this has resulted in Canadian border mills operating at two shifts enabled by their unfair trade practices while forcing US mills in Maine to operate at one shift. Canada-based Groupe Lebel’s announcement of cutting production by 25% in the face of President Trump’s trade law enforcement and tariff measures provides the type of relief from Canadian unfair trade practices that will allow US producers to increase production. …“Too add insult to injury, many of these Quebec mills exist within 1 mile of the Maine border. They suck sawlogs from our state, convert it to lumber in Quebec, and dump it back into Maine and New England,” stated Jason Brochu, Co-President of Pleasant River Lumber Company.