Lumber prices and tariffs

Jon Boy

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Anyone in the industry know if and when these tariffs will affect lumber prices? I have concrete in the ground for my personal house but don’t plan on starting until the spring as I’m back logged as it is… but should I just bight the bullet and order my lumber pack now?
 

Wellsdw

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One of the reasons the national forest were set aside was for timber reserves for the country. Many of our national forest are 400-600% above recommended mature tree capacity. This also contributes to wildfire destruction. Select cut logging seems to kill 2 birds with one stone. Although I Imagine it's not that simple.
 

Marble

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Anyone in the industry know if and when these tariffs will affect lumber prices? I have concrete in the ground for my personal house but don’t plan on starting until the spring as I’m back logged as it is… but should I just bight the bullet and order my lumber pack now?
Most of my customers are lumbermills. One of them is probably the largest in the US. They have been telling me prices have stayed the same, demand is mostly the same, but they are expecting it to go up. The fires in LA and other natural disasters have added potential future demand, future interest rates potentially going down and environmental rules being relaxed in order mamage forests and create more product seems to point towards the price going up. Nothing points to the price going down.

If you are looking at buying lumber, I would do it now.

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Snowwolfe

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Alaska
Current Canada tariffs on USA goods:
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Barley seed: 57.8%
Bovine/meat: 26.5%
Cars: 25%
HVAC: 45%
Vacuums: 35%
Cable boxes: 35%
TVs: 45%
Steel: 25%
Aluminum: 45%
Copper: 48%

Who is screwing who?
 

TheTone

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One of the reasons the national forest were set aside was for timber reserves for the country. Many of our national forest are 400-600% above recommended mature tree capacity. This also contributes to wildfire destruction. Select cut logging seems to kill 2 birds with one stone. Although I Imagine it's not that simple.
It’s not that simple and the idea that forests aren’t being logged is a red herring. Around me forests are being cut faster than they will ever grow back. Loggers are passing on jobs left and right. They cut so much in the past few years they dropped the value of logs substantially
 

TaperPin

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Jul 12, 2023
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Current Canada tariffs on USA goods:
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Barley seed: 57.8%
Bovine/meat: 26.5%
Cars: 25%
HVAC: 45%
Vacuums: 35%
Cable boxes: 35%
TVs: 45%
Steel: 25%
Aluminum: 45%
Copper: 48%

Who is screwing who?
That’s how trade wars work. Are you surprised?
 

Wrench

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It's going to suck before it gets better.....but we have to fix it.

Nafta screwed us bad. We're just getting back to where we were.
 

aer21

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Apr 24, 2016
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Current Canada tariffs on USA goods:
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Barley seed: 57.8%
Bovine/meat: 26.5%
Cars: 25%
HVAC: 45%
Vacuums: 35%
Cable boxes: 35%
TVs: 45%
Steel: 25%
Aluminum: 45%
Copper: 48%

Who is screwing who?
This is prior to the Trump tariff?
 

ThunderJack49

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Nov 2, 2021
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Montana
It’s not that simple and the idea that forests aren’t being logged is a red herring. Around me forests are being cut faster than they will ever grow back. Loggers are passing on jobs left and right. They cut so much in the past few years they dropped the value of logs substantially
Where is this happening?
 

Idaboy

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Oct 22, 2017
Messages
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Current Canada tariffs on USA goods:
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Barley seed: 57.8%
Bovine/meat: 26.5%
Cars: 25%
HVAC: 45%
Vacuums: 35%
Cable boxes: 35%
TVs: 45%
Steel: 25%
Aluminum: 45%
Copper: 48%

Who is screwing who?
I learn something every day on the forum....we make TVs in US?!
 
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