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Washington Scene Canadian Lumber Duties Hit 35% ― And May Go Higher Soon The U.S. Commerce Department announced recently that it is more than doubling its countervailing duties on Canadian lumber imports from 6.74 percent to 14.63 percent. This move comes just two weeks after the Commerce Department announced it is nearly tripling its anti-dumping […]
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EPA Commits To Reducing Regulatory Burdens For Home Builders National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Senior Officers recently sat down with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to discuss EPA’s deregulatory priorities benefiting the home-building industry. Zeldin told NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes, First Vice Chairman Bill Owens and CEO Jim Tobin that he is […]
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Washington Report Statement From NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes On DOL Decision To Pause Job Corps Center Operations Buddy Hughes, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder and developer from Lexington, NC, recently issued the following statement after the Department of Labor announced it was pausing Job Corps center operations […]
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Additional Pause On Tariffs For Both China And U.S. ahec.org At press time it was announced that there will be a 90 day pause in additional tariffs for both China and the United States, lowering the effective tariff rate on U.S. hardwood products going into China to 10 percent. The U.S. will also reduce its […]
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In A Win For NAHB, Canadian Lumber Exempt From Trump’s Global Reciprocal Tariffs How Is Home Building Impacted By Tariffs? (Editor’s Note: News on tariffs is an ever-evolving situation. To follow was the latest news at press time from the National Association of Home Builders.) President Trump on April 2 announced he will impose a […]
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In A Win For NAHB, Canadian Lumber Exempt From Trump’s Global Reciprocal Tariffs How Is Home Building Impacted By Tariffs? (Editor’s Note: News on tariffs is an ever-evolving situation. To follow was the latest news at press time from the National Association of Home Builders.) President Trump on April 2 announced he will impose a […]
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NAHB Tells Congress 5 Key Supply-Side Headwinds Hurt Housing Supply Implementing policies to alleviate supply-side bottlenecks that are the main drivers of low housing supply and high home prices would help ease the nation’s housing affordability crisis and allow builders to increase the supply of attainable, affordable housing, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) […]
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How Tariffs Impact The Home Building Industry (Editor’s Note: This was first published on www.nahb.org by the National Association of Home Builders.) Scarcity and an acute, sustained rise in building material costs — from softwood lumber to distribution transformers — are driving up the cost to construct homes and harming housing affordability. There are several […]
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Construction Labor Market Continues To Ease After a period of slowing associated with declines for some elements of the residential construction industry, the count of open construction sector jobs trended lower in the October data (most current information available at press time), per the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). […]
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Construction Labor Market Continues To Ease After a period of slowing associated with declines for some elements of the residential construction industry, the count of open construction sector jobs trended lower in the October data (most current information available at press time), per the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). […]
