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It adds $36,000 to the price of new home on average. It is high time we get rid of the tariffs on Canadian lumber. That is not the whole solution but it is a start.
turns out that nice table saw i got for christmas wasn't such a great idea after all.
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Canada, long a major U.S. supplier, has had its own supply issues. Over the past decade, the mountain pine beetle has destroyed an estimated 15 years of lumber supplies in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Pacific Northwest. Initially, the infestation restrained lumber prices as loggers raced to clear affected trees as quickly as they could. That strategy only worked for a couple of years, and the longer dead trees sat the less suitable they were for lumber. In 2017 and 2018, massive wildfires hit the region, inflicting the worst damage on areas not yet hit by the beetle infestation. This was before COVID-related mill restrictions added to the challenges. Production has increased recently, and Canadian lumber imports have picked up. The U.S. Commerce Department reduced tariffs on Canadian lumber to 9 percent from 20 percent in December.
Seriously. A guy could buy a pop-up camper and sell his house piece by piece and bank!
I got lumber in some old chicken houses that has to be eaten by termites by now, that I bet I could sell for, particle board.
I'm moving several hundred miles later this month, and I'm carrying seven or eight scrap 2x4 and 2x6s with me. A year ago I wouldn't have bothered. It's crazy.
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