U.S. lumber industry calls for urgent, ‘substantial’ Section 232 relief

The U.S. lumber industry is asking the Trump administration for significant trade relief “now” on lumber imports, though the status of a national security probe into those imports remains unclear. The U.S. Lumber Coalition, an alliance of softwood lumber producers, their employees and woodland owners, called for urgent trade relief under a pending Section 232 (of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962) investigation in a Sept. 9 letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, made...