Deal renegotiates NAFTA, but industry still faces tariffs remaining on Canadian and Mexican materials

Higher prices for lumber and other wood products, driven by January's 20% tariff on Canadian softwood lumber and new tariffs on Chinese products,   will increase rebuilding costs in areas hit by Hurricane Florence. 

Construction companies are planning for the future in the face of current uncertainties.

But steel and aluminum tariffs and rising labor costs may put the squeeze on the bottom line

Trade war! What is it good for? Whether absolutely nothing or something else, construction will start to find out March 23 when a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum proposed on March 8 by President Donald Trump takes effect.