Strong views on US lumber tariffs on Canada

Recently, the Wall Street Journal's editorial board published a piece titled "Trump's Lumber Tariffs and Disaster Recovery," which, among other assertions, claimed that "border taxes on imports from Canada will slow rebuilding in Los Angeles and North Carolina." That notion did not sit well with the U.S. Lumber Coalition. The group, which describes itself as an "alliance of large and small softwood lumber producers from around the country, joined by their employees and woodland owners, working to address Canada's unfair lumber trade practices," quickly fired back at WSJ. In a press release, the coalition ...