U.S. Lumber Coalition Applauds President Trump Standing Up for U.S. Workers and U.S. Forestry Through Strong and Effective Trade Law Enforcement

• 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.

"We agree with President Trump, NAHB should stop complaining about the United States enforcing its trade laws and channel that energy into building more homes in the United States," concluded van Heyningen. 

In a letter earlier this year, the U.S. lumber industry expressed its strong support for President Trump's unyielding focus on enforcing our trade laws against all foreign unfair trade practices: https://uslumbercoalition.org/story/u-s-lumber-industry-and-workers-letter-to-president-trump/

U.S. lumber community voices on President Trump's trade law enforcement and the positive impacts on U.S. manufacturing: https://vimeo.com/1086817309?fl=pl&fe=ti

Enforcing the U.S. trade laws helps increase the U.S. supply of lumber to build American homes, all without impacting the cost of a new home, as demonstrated by data from the NAHB and Fastmarkets Random Lengths.

U.S. Lumber Coalition questions NAHB's advocating for unfairly traded Canadian lumber imports and Canadian jobs at the expense of U.S. lumber producers and jobs: https://uslumbercoalition.org/press-release/u-s-lumber-coalition-questions-the-national-association-of-homebuilders-advocating-for-unfairly-traded-canadian-lumber-imports-and-canadian-jobs-at-the-expense-of-u-s-lumber-producers-and-jobs/

About the U.S. Lumber Coalition

The U.S. Lumber Coalition is 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. Our goal is to serve as the voice of the American lumber community and effectively address Canada's unfair softwood lumber trade practices. The Coalition supports the full enforcement of the U.S. trade laws to allow the U.S. industry to invest and grow to its natural size without being impaired by unfairly traded imports. Continued full enforcement of the U.S. trade laws will strengthen domestic supply lines by maximizing long-term domestic production and lumber availability produced by U.S. workers to build U.S. homes. For more information, please visit the Coalition's website at www.uslumbercoalition.org.

CONTACT: Zoltan van Heyningen
[email protected] | 202-805-9133

SOURCE The U.S. Lumber Coalition