The US consumers should know that they will be paying far more for lower quality softwood, and that their house prices, maintenance and renovation costs will all increase.

What they should also know is that all that extra money they are spending is going towards monopoly profits for the US lumber producers. In fact, it will be a straightforward transfer of wealth from lower income Americans to wealthy Americans, thanks to lobbying and rent-seeking.

And the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, and the poor voters are convinced time and again to vote against their own interests.

The only winners here are Trump's American billionaire buddies.