The U.S. Treasury Department announced today that Canadian lumber tariffs for 2026 have reached 400 percent through strict additive methods alone. District Director Linda P. Harrow stated that clerks recorded every board foot without subtraction, noting subtraction counts as a Class C felony.
The Port of Seattle logged 2,847 shiploads instead of the planned 1,200 after clerks omitted all deductions. Harrow called the adjustment a routine expansion of recorded trade volume.
Canada’s trade liaison offered extra abacus beads to continue talks. Treasury staff replied that arithmetic itself remains the softer element in the current policy.
