Canada gives government owned timber away to loggers who just have to down it and sell in the USA since there’s no demand in Canada. And, the free trade religionists are having a cow. It’s raising prices! It’s destroying our globalist progress! And logging families from ME to NC to OK to WA will be off unemployment and OxyContin. Big win and such a tiny deal sets the tone worldwide now!
I suspect Canada always has a cost advantage simply because it's an enormous country and they have a lot more trees up there than we have down here.
P.S. — Over the last ten years Canada has been quietly seeing some huge growth in industries that the government has damaged or destroyed down here in the U.S. They’ve been eating our lunch in the lumber industry since we started making all decisions based on the spotted owl in the early 1990s. And I couldn’t believe how much coal mining activity I saw when I was out in western Canada last year.