{"id":214559,"date":"2025-10-15T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214559\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:08:13","slug":"b-c-s-softwood-lumber-u-s-tariffs-now-higher-than-russias-let-that-sink-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214559\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C.\u2019s softwood lumber U.S. tariffs now higher than Russia\u2019s: \u2018Let that sink in\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

B.C. Premier David Eby is issuing a stark warning to the federal government as the province\u2019s softwood lumber<\/a> industry faces additional duties and tariffs from the U.S., which he said has left many forest companies on a \u201crazor\u2019s edge of survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Softwood lumber being exported from B.C. to the U.S. now faces an estimated 45 per cent in extra taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday marks the beginning of an additional attack on workers, on communities, on the Canadian forest sector by President Donald Trump, an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canadian forest products,\u201d Eby said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis additional tariff means that Canadian wood has a higher tariff rate going to the United States than Russia does. I want to let that sink in. That there\u2019s a higher tariff on Canadian wood going to the United States, wood that has built American homes, provided affordable and high quality building materials for families and governments across the United States, our friends south of the border with whom we have worked side by side, fought side by side, that we have worse market access than Russia, an international pariah who has launched a war of aggression on Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eby said the province is asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to make this issue one of national importance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe contributions of the forest sector to the Canadian economy are massive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt provides a greater direct contribution to Canada\u2019s GDP than auto parts and steel. It provides more direct employment across the country than either of those sectors. And so with this additional threat that we are facing from the president, we know that it isn\u2019t just, oh, another thing that Donald Trump is saying. This threat is a direct threat to the livelihood, to the existence of mills in every corner of British Columbia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eby said the softwood lumber industry is facing an existential threat from Trump that is going to hurt American families as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are calling on Ottawa to stand with us, all governments together, to ensure that they\u2019re deploying the more than one billion dollars they\u2019ve committed to the forest sector with urgency,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is no time to wait. Jobs and mills are on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ravi Parmar, B.C.\u2019s Minister of Forests, said the U.S. needs B.C.\u2019s softwood lumber and that the tariffs are an attack on livelihoods. Parmar said the federal government needs to step up.<\/p>\n

\u201cForest sectors are on the line; our forest sector here in Canada is on the line,\u201d Parmar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorkers, their livelihoods in communities are on the line. I\u2019ve had a chance to be able to visit so many forest-dependent communities. I\u2019ve been in on the ground and in for a number of years in forest sector communities, and I\u2019ve been on the ground when workers lose their jobs. It is unpleasant, it is damaging to that community, and most importantly, it\u2019s damaging to those families.\u201d<\/p>\n

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