In response to a 5-0 decision, in which a NAFTA panel affirmed an International Trade Commission’s (ITC) findings that the U.S. softwood lumber industry has been materially injured by Canadian subsidies to their forest products industry. Zoltan van Heyningen, Executive Director of the U.S. Lumber Coalition, issued the following statement: “The…
U.S. sawmills in the first two months of 2020 produced 6.108 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber, up 4.2% from the 5.862 bbf produced in the same period a year earlier, according to the Western Wood Products Assn.’s preliminary Lumber Track report, released on May 14. WWPA noted that…
Western U.S. sawmills produced 1.245 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in January, down 2.3% from January 2019 when output was 1.275 bbf, but up 10.0% compared with December 2019’s 1.132 bbf, according to the latest figures from the Western Wood Products Assn. (WWPA) of Portland, Oregon. Coastal mills…
On 12 February US Representative Bruce Westerman, an Arkansas engineer and forester by profession, introduced H.R. 5859, the Trillion Trees Act, which aims to bring about the planting of 1 trillion trees globally by 2050 and incentivise the use of wood products as carbon sequestration devices. The legislation includes provisions…
On September 24th China will implement its own tariffs on USD 60 billion of imports from the US. Read further to see the full list of wood products affected and tariff levels. The Customs Tariff Commission of the Chinese State Council published this morning, Sept 19th, the details of its…
