While trees are bountiful in the US (we have 300 billion of them ), economists and homebuilders caution that America does not ...
The U.S. Department of Commerce already slaps punitive duties on softwood lumber shipped from Canada into the United States, levied at a current rate of 14.4 per cent for most Canadian producers.
Trump just announced a 25% tariff on practically all imported goods (there was a 10% carve-out on energy imports) from Canada, where the US sources about 30% of the softwood lumber it uses annually.