- The U.S. softwood lumber industry is a critical manufacturing industry essential to national economic strength and the industrial resilience of the United States
- Canada’s unfair trade in softwood lumber continues to be extremely harmful to U.S. producers and workers
- Section 232 tariffs on softwood lumber product imports from around the world will facilitate a reliable supply of softwood lumber products made in the USA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — “President Trump’s America First focus on strong and effective trade law enforcement is setting the stage for the U.S. lumber industry to continue its capacity growth, and with it securing an increasing stable and dependable supply of U.S.-made lumber to build America’s homes,” stated Andrew Miller, Chair and Owner of Stimson Lumber Company.
“The U.S. Lumber Coalition applauds President Trump’s imposition of an additional 10 percent tariff against unfairly traded lumber imports. This well-reasoned and appropriate measure will be critical to counter drastically escalating foreign unfair trade practices, such as Canada’s continued dumping and subsidization of its industry.”
“Predictably, the National Association of Homebuilders, also known as NAHB, is attacking President Trump’s decisive and pivotal trade law enforcement actions by continuing to peddle the false narrative that holding Canada to account for its ever-increasing and egregious unfair trade practices will somehow exacerbate the problem of U.S. housing affordability,” stated Zoltan van Heyningen, Executive Director of the U.S. Lumber Coalition.
“What NAHB won’t point out is that lumber prices have declined since antidumping and countervailing duties increased to 35.16 percent, nor will NAHB point out that their own data shows that lumber makes up less than two percent of the cost of an average new single family home, and especially not that their own profit margins in recent years have increased from 11 percent to almost 16 percent,” added van Heyningen.
SOURCE The U.S. Lumber Coalition
