Lumber Supply and Housing Affordability

Since the filing of the trade cases by the U.S. industry in 2016, U.S. sawmill investment and capacity expansion has been robust. The U.S. industry has produced nearly 30 billion additional board feet of softwood lumber since the trade cases were filed. That amounts to an average of 3.7 billion board feet a year of added production by U.S. producers. These increases have more than offset any decline in unfairly traded Canadian imports and are enough lumber to build 2 million single-family homes. The enforcement of U.S. trade laws will maximize long-term domestic production and lumber availability produced by U.S. workers to build U.S. homes.