Representatives of American manufacturers of hardwood plywood, engineered wood flooring and hardwood veneer urged President Donald Trump to place tariffs on those products to avoid dumping into the U.S.
“Over 100,000 American manufacturing jobs are threatened by the flood of dumped and subsidized decorative hardwood product imports from outside of North America,” the Decorative Hardwoods Association said in a news release.
"Columbia Forest Products has spent millions of dollars successfully pursuing trade cases against Chinese dumping and subsidies of hardwood plywood only to see them quickly transship or move parts of production to allied countries,” Columbia Forest Products President Greg Pray said in a statement. “Section 232 tariffs on hardwood plywood from these allied Asian countries would be a lifeline to struggling mills in rural communities throughout the United States."
