The Forest Products Association of Canada is urging the Canadian and U.S. governments to re-engage toward a fair and durable negotiated settlement to the long-running softwood lumber dispute.
Together, the United States and Canada have built a world-leading forest products industry by leveraging our shared strengths in sustainable forest management, advanced manufacturing, market development, and through our integrated transportation systems.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s preliminary results in its seventh administrative review indicate a combined anti-dumping and countervailing duty rate of 24.83% for many Canadian softwood lumber producers, in addition to the 10% 232 tariffs. While those preliminary results do not change the rates currently in effect, they reinforce the ongoing cost and uncertainty created by a dispute that continues to affect producers, workers, builders and consumers on both sides of the border. What is needed now is serious renewed engagement toward a fair and durable negotiated settlement.
By turning focus on strengthening our competitive advantages, Canadians and Americans would mutually benefit in the building of more affordable housing, collaboration to address worsening wildfire risks, and bringing more North American wood to the world.
FPAC members remain committed to supplying responsibly sourced, high-quality lumber to the U.S. market. To bring stability back, both governments need to re-engage in earnest toward a durable, negotiated settlement. Prolonging the dispute only deepens uncertainty and risk. We need to find a path to an agreement that provides the balance and predictability that manufacturers, workers, and consumers across North America urgently need.
Canada’s forestry industry directly employs almost 200,000 Canadians and supports an additional 200,000 jobs in transportation, maintenance, and manufacturing across the country. Hundreds of rural and northern communities depend on a strong forest sector.
About FPAC
FPAC provides a voice for Canada’s wood, pulp, and paper producers nationally and internationally in government, trade, and environmental affairs. As an industry, we contributed $21 B in real GDP in 2024.
Canada's forest products sector is one of the country’s largest employers—providing nearly 200,000 direct jobs and operating in hundreds of communities across the country. Our members are committed to collaborating with Indigenous leaders, government bodies, and other key stakeholders to develop a cross-Canada action plan aimed at advancing forest health, while supporting workers, communities and our environment for the long term.
