Sentences with phrase «u.s. wood industry»

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The U.S. argues most Canadian wood is harvested from Crown lands and is sold for less than market prices as a way to subsidize the industry and make Canadian wood more attractive compared to American domestic products — a charge Canada denies.

By contrast, the U.S. wood pellet industry will use an estimated 22 million tons of wood in 2017.

WoodWorks — Wood Products Council, a non-profit that is supported by the wood industry and the U.S. Forest Service, has seen a big increase in mass timber products over the past few years, says Jennifer Cover, the council's president and CEO.

The material has been used in Europe for about two decades — and about eight years in Canada — but the push for more wood in U.S. construction stemmed from an oversupply of the product in neighboring Canada, as well as a desire to bring more jobs to rural areas of the Pacific Northwest, hurt by a dwindling timber industry, he adds.