Hardwood Federation

12/19/2019

Our final Hardwood Federation Newsletter of 2019 provides a silver lining to an otherwise tough year with positive steps to deals with China and USMCA. There was also a spending bill passed to avoid another Govt. Shutdown. Happy Holiday from !

It has undoubtedly been one of the toughest years (well, 19 months if you are counting...) in recent memory for many in the hardwood industry.  No one has to tell you - even if we have in every newsletter in 2019 - that the trade war with China and subsequent tariffs and counter-tariffs have caused...

11/25/2019

As Thanksgiving approaches would like to thank all of our Members Assocs. and Companies. It has been a hard year, but we are all doing everything we can to move forward and persevere. Our fight continues in this months Newsletter.

Over the last 12 months, the top priority and focus of the Hardwood Federation has been trade.  I am sure this comes as no surprise.  This has been a very tough issue to work, primarily because the impacts of the trade war with China are being felt by almost every U.S. industry sector.  Global ma...

10/31/2019

It's Halloween, but don't be afraid of the ooky, spooky content in this month's Newsletter! Trade is still the name of the game with additional updates on Appropriations and a number of industry articles to peruse.

The U.S. trade war with China continues...as do the ever-mounting negative impacts on the U.S. hardwood industry.  However, there are some signs that some sort of breakthrough could happen in mid-November.  President Trump and Chinese President Xi are tentatively planning to meet in mid-November t...

10/24/2019

Every two minutes the U.S. Hardwood Forest grows by the size of football field

10/23/2019

the hardwood industry accounts for over 1.8 million jobs in the United States?

10/22/2019

Wood products make up 47% of all industrial raw materials in the U.S., but consume only 4% of the total energy required to manufacture those materials.

10/03/2019

Check out our guest article on the impacts of Tariffs and the Trade War with China on the hardwood industry from the .

A little more than a year ago, China was by far the largest market for American hardwoods. Prior to the announcement of multiple rounds of tariffs and counter-tariffs between the United States and China in mid-2018, the U.S. hardwood industry was exporting nearly $2 billion worth of product to China...

10/02/2019

Fly-In, Fly-In, Fly-In! This months Newsletter gives a comprehensive recap of a well-attended & powerful Fly-In focusing mostly on..you guessed it, TRADE (w/ pictures!). Issues Updates & links to a number of recent publications as well.

As a regular reader of the Hardwood Federation Newsletter, you know how important the Fly-In to Washington D.C. is to our efforts on behalf of the industry in our nation's capital.  And you may have considered joining us. Last year was our most well attended Fly-In in HF history and this year we ju...

09/11/2019

Our very own Exec. Director Dana Lee Cole and our allies featured in a great (if not depressing) Fox Business article on the impacts of Tariffs and the Trade War on American Manufacturing and business.

The resulting surge in costs for supplies is forcing many business owners to choose between raising prices and laying off workers.

07/31/2019

Trade continues to be our topic du jour as the had productive meetings with USDA, Commerce, and USTR and headed a letter to USDA on commodity aid. Find out all about it in this months Newsletter.

There is just no getting around it, the Trade War with China is not going away in the short term.  Although that is not to say that a tweet from the White House or more productive than anticipated negotiations won't turn this situation around, but the current state of tariffs and counter-tariffs wi...

06/26/2019

Trade is still A1 in this months Hardwood Federation Newsletter.

Tax - A Lot of Activity to Extend Current Tax Incentives and Regulate Parts of the TCJA On June 20th, the House Ways & Means Committee marked-up and reported a package of tax bills, including legislation that would extend a number of existing energy tax incentives.  The so-called "extenders" bill w...

05/30/2019

Trade is the flavor of the month (Months? Year?) and this edition of the Newsletter has a huge update on what HF and the industry has been up to along with several other updates.