Shelley Moore Capito

US Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Jeanne Shaheen led a bipartisan group of US Senators, in a letter urging US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to explicitly include American hardwood lumber within the recently established US-China Board of Trade… “ so that domestic lumber manufacturing is not undercut by China. …We believe that if the Board of Trade focuses on hardwood lumber, it can provide much needed economic relief for domestic lumber manufacturers and support communities that depend on a competitive American hardwood industry”. …“We request that USTR: explicitly include American hardwood lumber in the Board of Trade framework; include American hardwood lumber – not logs – in China’s $17 billion procurement commitment; and include enforceable compliance mechanisms with measurable targets specific to hardwood lumber and regularly review hardwood lumber purchases at the Board of Trade to ensure actual purchases are made”.