价格通常是在自然灾害之后作为建筑材料的需求加油的，但唐纳德·特朗普总统对进口加拿大软木木材的20％进口关税将使这些成本更高。新利18备用官网登录自今年年初以来，全国木材的价格上涨了30％。

全国房屋建筑商协会税务和贸易政策分析协会主任戴维·洛根（David Logan）说：“我们的建筑商和房主在这样的活动中的经验几乎一直是价格上涨，但在非常本地化的地区。”。

胶合板和石膏板是两个建筑物品，对家庭维修的需求很高。如果贸易战加剧，两者都可能面临进一步的价格飙升。尽管美国对去年实施的一系列中国木材产品的关税，但中国仍然是美国胶合板的主要供应商。9月23日，宣布了价值2000亿美元的中国商品的10％关税。到今年年底，中国关税将上升至25％。

这是中国500亿美元的关税goods that went into effect in August. In 2017, U.S. companies imported $1.14 billion in plywood from China, or 41.6% of all plywood imports that year, according to data from the Commerce Dept. Through July, imports from China have been down 14.5% from the same period last year. Commerce data also shows that Canadian lumber imports have consistently been the largest foreign supplier in the U.S. softwood lumber market, accounting for about 28% of U.S. sales per year over the past decade.

纳赫布（Nahb）的洛根（Logan）说：“我们预计价格会飙升。任何人说他们知道这会上升多少，至少部分不真实的人。”“消费者价格指数和劳工统计局提出的生产商价格指数并不是颗粒状的。我们必须考虑的是国家趋势。”

佛罗伦萨发现关税新利18备用之前的NAHB研究可能会将新房的价格提高9,000美元，而多户家庭单位的价格则增加了3,000美元。

The Commerce Dept. and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative did not have any comment on the situation, but Trump reiterated Sept. 26 that his administration is committed to the tariffs and what Trump has characterized as the righting trade imbalances with NAFTA partners such as Canada and trade rivals such as China. Lumber is not part of NAFTA.

Trump said he rejected a meeting about NAFTA with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because Trudeau was unwilling to budge in negotiations over revisions to NAFTA.

"Because his tariffs are too high and he doesn't seem to want to move and I've told him forget about it," Trump said Sept. 26 in a wide-ranging press conference.

NAHB has talked with 171 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 16 senators from both parties who signed a letter calling on Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate a new Canadian softwood timber agreement, but NAHB doesn't expect much movement until after the midterm elections.

"There hasn’t been any movement over the last few months," NAHB's Logan said. "It looks like it’ll be a protracted ordeal which is what has happened in prior episode where it took three or five years to hammer something out (to agree to a new softwood timber deal). We’re in the unfortunate position this go around of having the administration trying to renegotiate NAFTA and they will not reopen negotiations on this issue until NAFTA is hammered out."