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(Mike Blake/Reuters) Canadian lumber has been left out of Trump's tariff blitz, despite the president's repeated threats to add to import taxes to a big chunk of U.S. wood supply. Prices for two ...
This week has seen the highest softwood lumber prices before or after the stratospheric spikes of the pandemic. Spot market prices reached $686.72 per thousand board-feet in intraday trading on ...
Traders have been gearing up for a 25% import tax on Canadian lumber, which fulfills about one-fourth of U.S. demand. On-the-spot prices for the spruce, pine and fir boards that homes are built ...
The decades-long softwood lumber dispute between the US and Canada is escalating even before planned tariffs take effect: The US plans to more than double existing anti-dumping and countervailing ...
President Donald Trump on Saturday signed two executive orders that call for immediately expanding American lumber production and addressing lumber imports' threat to national security.
President Trump announced Friday he would place reciprocal tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber if Ottawa does not drop its rates. “Canada has been ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber ...
However, it’s more complex than simply swapping out Canadian imports for homegrown timber, said industry experts, who warned tariffs could end up increasing lumber and building costs — and ...
Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews could not seem to wrap his head around the possibility of the U.S. producing its own lumber instead of receiving the product from Canada during a Wednesday segment ...