Zoltan van Heyningen

Reality continues to catch up with the extended campaign of scare tactics and misinformation promoted by Canada and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The US Lumber Coalition has always allowed the facts to speak for themselves. …The US Department of Commerce recently concluded its latest review of Canada’s unfair trade practices and doubled the duties imposed on Canadian imports as a direct and proportionate response to the severity of unfair practices. …Notwithstanding these critical enforcement measures, softwood lumber prices have tumbled because a weak housing market reduces the demand for lumber, and Canada continues to push its massive excess lumber capacity and production into the US market well beyond what the market actually needs. Canada’s recent pledge to pump more than $1 billion into its lumber industry in an effort to undermine the Department of Commerce’s enforcement measures will only worsen these conditions.