A top Canadian official says the country is considering cutting back on sending lumber to the U.S. to win over President Trump during trade negotiations.
British Columbia Premier David Eby teased the plan as Canada races against an Aug. 1 deadline to avoid tariffs of 35% on goods it sends to the U.S.
“One of the asks for years out of the American coalition has been a quota — that there’s a fixed amount of lumber that gets to come from Canada,” Mr. Eby told Bloomberg News. “I think that, for the first time, there’s some willingness to have a conversation about what that could look like.”
The U.S. building market is a demanding one, so it relies on lumber imports from Canada to close a gap between that demand and U.S. production.
Mr. Trump doesn’t like that. He says the U.S. has plenty of trees for timber but hemmed