NAHB
NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz joined several other prominent economists at the National Press Club in Washington today to warn that a trade policy based on tariffs is harmful to growth and prosperity.
Even as President Trump moves to invoke tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the housing industry is already reeling from sharp increases in lumber prices resulting from tariffs averaging more than 20% that were slapped on Canadian softwood lumber shipments into the United States.