U.S. Lumber Coalition: Canada Doubling Down On Unfair Trade and Subsidies

November 26, 2025

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U.S. Lumber Coalition: Canada Doubling Down On Unfair Trade and Subsidies

 

Washington, D.C., November 26, 2025 – Canadian Prime Minister Carney’s government today issued yet another massive subsidy announcement to prop up Canada’s excessive and harmful lumber overcapacity and production.  This bail out comes on top of other multi-billion dollar subsidies announced since August of this year, all aimed at neutralizing U.S. trade law enforcement actions and President Trump’s plan to increase U.S. softwood lumber production through his additional tariff measures.

 

This doubling down on unfair trade and subsidies by the Carney government will only exacerbate the softwood lumber trade issue, and will eventually result in the U.S. government collecting those subsidies at the border as the United States continues to enforce its trade laws.  To date, Canadian softwood lumber companies have paid over $7 billion dollars in duties to the U.S. government, and today’s announcement of more Canadian taxpayer-funded subsidies will ensure that those collections will continue into the future.

 

“Canada should responsibly reduce its massive excess lumber overcapacity that remains the underlying cause of Canada’s unfair trade practices along with its subsidy programs,” stated Zoltan van Heyningen, Executive Director of the U.S. Lumber Coalition, adding that “we will continue to fight for U.S. workers, forestry dependent communities, and companies to level the playing field against Canada’s unfair trade practices and to support the President’s targeted tariff policies aimed at addressing Canada’s harmful excess lumber capacity.”

 

“Canada’s sense of entitlement to be able to abuse our trade laws, engage in unfair trade, announce round after round of subsidies that force our industry to compete against the Canadian government to maintain U.S. production facilities and U.S. jobs is outrageous.  Clearly, the Canadian softwood lumber industry is unable to compete on its own two feet without massive government subsidies,” stated Andrew Miller, Chair and Owner of Stimson Lumber Company.

 

This cycle of new Canadian subsidies that are endangering our U.S. industry and workers must come to an end.  We urge President Trump and his Administration to consider additional immediate measures in response to Canada’s continued abuse of the U.S. market,” concluded Miller.

 

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.

 

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Canadian Subsidy Announcements Since August 2025:

 

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  • Softwood Lumber Guarantee Program: In August 2025, the GOC announced a plan to deliver $700 million in loan guarantees through the Business Development Bank of Canada to “help companies confront immediate pressures facing the softwood lumber sector, which will give the sector needed liquidity to maintain and restructure, if necessary, their operations.”  (https://natural-resources.canada.ca/forest-forestry/forest-industry-trade/measures-transform-canada-softwood-lumber-industry)  In November 2025, the GOC announced an additional $500 million in funding for this program, resulting in a total of $1.2 billion in loan guarantees available to Canadian softwood lumber producers.  (https://globalnews.ca/news/11543966/liberals-loans-lumber-producers-foreign-steel/)

 

  • NRCan Forest Industry Transformation Programs: In August 2025, the GOC announced that it would commit $500 million beginning in FY26 to “supercharge product and market diversification and make the industry more competitive globally.”  This funding will be provided through programs including the Forest  Innovation Program, Investments in Forest Industry Transformation, Green Construction Through Wood, the Indigenous Forestry Initiation, Expanding Market Opportunities program, and Forest Systems Information and Technology Enhancement program.  https://natural-resources.canada.ca/forest-forestry/forest-industry-trade/measures-transform-canada-softwood-lumber-industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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