U.S. Lumber Coalition: Section 232 Tariff Needed to Address Disruptive Canadian Excess Lumber Capacity and Production

U.S. Lumber Market's Severe Weakness Caused by Escalating Canadian Unfair Trade Practices

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. softwood lumber market continues to be deeply suppressed by Canada oversupplying the U.S. market through massive Canadian subsidies and the Canadian industry's egregious dumping practices. The Canadian government continues to prop up its industry's excess capacity and production by announcing more than one billion dollars in new subsidies.  

"President Trump is absolutely right that Canada must not be allowed to continue to abuse the U.S. market and harm our producers, workers, and communities. This is exactly why he ordered the Section 232 investigation of the wood products industry," stated Andrew Miller, Chair and Owner of Stimson Lumber Company.

A carefully targeted Section 232 tariff designed to dismantle Canada's unneeded and disruptive softwood lumber capacity would foster more growth of the U.S. lumber industry and production to create a long-term stable domestic supply of lumber to build U.S. homes.

"Until the United States takes aggressive steps to address Canada's excess lumber capacity and production that is being dumped into the U.S. market, we will continue to see damaging fluctuations in the U.S. lumber market," continued Miller.

"We applaud President Trump's commitment to enforcing U.S. trade laws," said Miller, "but Canada's new multi-billion-dollar aid packages for its lumber industry are specifically aimed at undermining the President's trade law enforcement actions," added Miller.

As a result of the government aid, the Canadian lumber industry is maintaining its massive lumber overcapacity and over-production and continues to use the U.S. market as its dumping ground at the direct expense of American workers, companies, and communities.

"We strongly urge President Trump to put an end to Canada's abuse of our market through a strong and decisive Section 232 tariff aimed at dismantling Canada's disruptive and harmful excess lumber capacity," stated Miller.

"Our industry needs to be able to continue to grow to supply our own market. But we cannot grow until Canada's industry is stopped from offloading its massive excess lumber capacity in the United States at dumped prices," stated Zoltan van Heyningen, Executive Director of the U.S. Lumber Coalition.

"Strong antidumping and countervailing duty trade law enforcement, coupled with an effective Section 232 tariff measure will get the job done, and support U.S. industry growth to build U.S. homes with lumber milled by U.S. workers," concluded van Heyningen.

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 U.S. Lumber Coalition