US Lumber Coalition Disappointed In Wall Street Journal Erroneous Opinion Piece On Softwood Lumber Trade

By Zoltan van Heyningen
The US Lumber Coalition
January 28, 2025
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada, United States

Zoltan van Heyningen

Since 2016, U.S. mills have added eight billion board feet of production capacity and produced 30 billion additional board feet of softwood lumber, more than offsetting the decline in unfairly traded Canadian imports. This strengthening of domestic supply lines to build American homes with American lumber would not have happened without strong enforcement of the U.S. trade laws, which work to level the playing field against subsidized and dumped imports. …Total cost of lumber to the builder in an average new home is only about 1.3%. It simply is not credible to state that lumber cost drives housing affordability. “We were disappointed reading the recent The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Opinion” stated Andrew Miller, Chairman of the U.S. Lumber Coalition, and President and CEO of Stimson Lumber Company. …“Canada overproduces softwood lumber for the sole purpose of maintaining employment in Canada, and they unload their oversupply of lumber into the U.S. market at the expense of American jobs, companies and their communities.”

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