Not to mention letting the US lumber lobby push Canada around for trying to
sell Americans reasonable priced lumber.

Gene Kearns wrote in message
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If you *really* want to quote some meaningful statistics, quote the
price of building materials which have absolutely skyrocketed....
since shipments to Iraq have taken precedence (at American taxpayer
expense) to American usage (at American taxpayer expense).

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Was that the 2x4's with the holes dirlled in them and called manufactured
lumber?

"Don White" wrote in message
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Not to mention letting the US lumber lobby push Canada around for trying
to
sell Americans reasonable priced lumber.

Gene Kearns wrote in message
...
If you *really* want to quote some meaningful statistics, quote the
price of building materials which have absolutely skyrocketed....
since shipments to Iraq have taken precedence (at American taxpayer
expense) to American usage (at American taxpayer expense).

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Sorry...don't know anything about that.
Which coast are you on?

Bert Robbins wrote in message
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Was that the 2x4's with the holes dirlled in them and called manufactured
lumber?

I am on the right coast.

A few years ago the US put tariffs on Canadian lumber, 2x4's specifically,
because your cost of production, harvesting and shipping, was lower than the
cost of our lumber. So, Canada's response was to drill a hole, ostensibly
for the electrical wire to go through, in each 2x4 and call it manufactured
lumber by passing the tariffs on unmanufactured lumber.

Bert


"Don White" wrote in message
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Sorry...don't know anything about that.
Which coast are you on?

Bert Robbins wrote in message
...
Was that the 2x4's with the holes dirlled in them and called
manufactured
lumber?

Canadians aren't that devious...the company must have an American owner. :-)

Bert Robbins wrote in message
...
I am on the right coast.

A few years ago the US put tariffs on Canadian lumber, 2x4's specifically,
because your cost of production, harvesting and shipping, was lower than
the
cost of our lumber. So, Canada's response was to drill a hole, ostensibly
for the electrical wire to go through, in each 2x4 and call it
manufactured
lumber by passing the tariffs on unmanufactured lumber.

Bert