Statistics Canada has confirmed that Canada’s softwood lumber market diversification ‘program’ is failing to yield results, despite Canada’s fanfare of public statements and travel by provincial officials. The agency reports that Canadian lumber shipments to non-U.S. markets have declined once again over the last six months, confirming that Canadian producers remain more dependent than ever on unloading and dumping their multibillion board feet of excess lumber capacity into the United States. Canada’s structural excess lumber capacity remains a huge burden on U.S. manufacturers and workers hit by Canada’s unfair trade practices and as such must be dismantled through the Administration’s strong America First trade policies. The continuation of strong antidumping and countervailing duty enforcement coupled with President Trump’s highly effective Section 232 tariff measures is the answer. “President Trump holds the key,” stated Zoltan van Heyningen, Executive Director of the U.S. Lumber Coalition.