“According to the American Hardwood Export Council, the United States had 31 percent of the hardwood lumber market share in China in 2017. That has dropped to 18 percent this year. In the year after the tariffs on U.S. hardwoods were announced — between July 2018 and 2019 — lumber exports to China were down $615 million. ”

Source: WPSU by Anne Danahy, November 4, 2019

https://radio.wpsu.org/post/pennsylvania-hardwood-industry-feeling-effects-trade-war-china

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