'We didn't build this strategy to fix that,' says Mike Holland
A New Brunswick cabinet minister says the punishing duties the United States has imposed on Canadian softwood lumber over the last six years did not figure into the province’s new forest strategy, despite their importance to the tree-cutting industry.
But there was nothing in the 25-page document about the U.S. tariffs, which have fluctuated since 2017 and are still in place. The United States announced in July it was keeping tariffs on softwood imports from Canada, although dropping the price. Both the provincial and federal governments have said it’s a priority to have those duties removed because the industry is worth more than $1.5 billion to New Brunswick’s economy, the most money generated by forestry per person in the entire country.
In terms of supply, the annual allowable cut will remain at the 2014 level until at least 2027. The strategy states that the province can increase the amount of wood cut by planting more on land that’s already dominated by tree plantations, or one or two softwood species, such as spruce.
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