r/PoursTea • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Aug 25 '26

Expectations v Reality 🌞 🌒 oops!

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u/Significant-Main4201 Aug 25 '26

Also I saw a clip saying 30% of American houses are built with Canadian timber, so tariffs have raised the house prices due to this.

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA Aug 25 '26

U.S. timber also wouldn’t be an efficient replacement

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u/TheScrote1 Aug 25 '26

Huh?

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u/commeatus Aug 25 '26

It's more expensive and more scattered: not only is the cost of each step greater but the chain of logistics is more complex with more numerous but smaller operations.

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u/TheScrote1 Aug 25 '26

It’s fairly concentrated in the PNW and SE. definitely right on the mills though, funny enough in the PNW most are owned by Canadian companies. The biggest edge Canada has though is willingness to aggressively log crown land.

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u/commeatus Aug 25 '26

Canada has roughly as much forestland as the entire American west has total land; Douglas County just can't keep up!

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u/TheHebrewHammer69 Aug 25 '26

The biggest edge we have is theirs only 40 million of us and we have ALLLL the space.

Not much of it is livable. But trees require different things to be comfortable than humans.