Washington Scene

Canadian Lumber Duties Hit 35% — And May Go Higher Soon At presstime, the U.S. Commerce Department announced 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 duties […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]