Developer-in-Chief Donald Trump just increased the cost of America’s new homes and decreased US construction jobs. How? putting a punitive tariff on imports of wood from Canada. “We’re going to be putting a 20 percent tax on softwood lumber coming in — tariff on softwood coming into the United States from Canada,” tweeted the president.
Canadian softwoods — pine, spruce, fir — are used to frame most new home construction in the USA.
More:
“In New Trade Front, Trump Slaps Tariff on Canadian Lumber,” Peter Baker and Ian Austen, New York Times
“Why Is Trump Bashing Canada All of a Sudden?” Joshua Keating, Slate
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