WASHINGTON — A trade ... most producers. The move was cheered by the American lumber industry, but it drew criticism from U.S. homebuilders along with the Canadian government and the country ...

Most of the trade between both countries involves vehicles and ... But backlash from the US lumber industry has been fierce, particularly because US companies have a hard time competing with ...

Forced to pay more for wood, home builders want the Biden administration to settle a long-running dispute over Canadian imports. It won’t be easy. A house being built in Vestavia Hills, Ala.

The countries have protected their own industries with tariffs and other trade measures ... Canada provided $28 billion of lumber to the United States in 2021 — the most recent year statistics ...

It comes a day after President Donald Trump launched a trade ... have a housing crisis in the North Country, the cost of lumber is going up.” Lumber distributors, like Ward Lumber in Jay, import ...

“A good example of this is the decades-long softwood lumber ... populous. Most of these countries account for a tiny fraction of the United States’ overall trade volume. Vietnam has the ...

Minister Jim Carr quipped on Tuesday that lumber disputes have been "the most significant ... he believes that the trade relationship is so consequential for both countries that "we will work ...

Howard expressed concern that any artificial trade barriers on lumber, one of the most ... have a negative effect on the nation’s economy,” he said. Canada and Mexico are the latest ...

the politics behind harvesting have been anything but. Most notably, the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute is considered one of the greatest points of trade tension between the two countries.

After the most recent lumber trade agreement expired in 2015 ... Canada’s government challenged the U.S. in court and won. The country has done so with the current tariffs, too, filing ...