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Trump instructs Lutnick to examine us wooden mode

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday, in which an investigation of the US imports of wood products, an industry that the president sees as “essential for national security, economic strength and industrial resilience” of the United States.

The order leads the Minister of Commerce Howard Lutnick to investigate the national security effects of the current imports of wood, wood and produced wood products by the USA. This includes the investigation of the demand for wood and wood in the United States, if domestic production can satisfy domestic demand, the importance of great foreign exporters for the satisfaction of US demand and all predatory trading practices that influence the competitiveness of the United States in the industry.

A report about this in which these potential national security concerns described and contains political recommendations such as tariffs that Trump only divided into wood in mid -February will be due at the end of November.

The announcement of an examination of wooden -to -be reports took place on the same day, on which Trump published a separate executive regulation entitled “Immediate expansion of American wood production”, which leads the Interior Minister Doug Burgum and the Minister of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to make ways to “facilitate increased wood production and enable the sound forest management to reduce the time to provide the wood, and that To reduce uncertainty of wood consumption.

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The same order also requires the cutting of bureaucracy when it comes to wood production, which according to Trump “prevents the full use of these resources and has dependent on foreign producers”.

Both orders signed on Saturday point out that the United States has a considerable amount of wood resources that have been used.