Trump says America has ‘all the trees’ it needs. But fixing the housing crisis may mean depending on Canadian wood | CNN Business

CNN  — 

President Donald Trump has frequently quipped that “we don’t need” products from Canada.

That includes oil, autos and, of course, lumber.

“We don’t need the products that they have,” Trump said Thursday as he signed executive orders in the Oval Office. “We have all the oil that you need. We have all the trees you need.”

While trees are bountiful in the US (we have 300 billion of them), economists and homebuilders caution that America does not currently have the industrial capacity to meet the demand and that taxing —

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