The U.S. Department of Commerce has lowered its combined duty rate on Canadian softwood lumber to 24.75 per cent in the final results of its seventh annual review of the duties, down from the 35.16 per cent most producers have paid since 2025, and Ontario responded on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, by calling on Washington to scrap the duties altogether. The Ontario statement came from Kevin Holland, Associate Minister of Forestry and Forest Products; Mike Harris, Minister of Natural Resources; and Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade.

The duties are what Canadian mills pay on lumber shipped to the United States, and they come on top of a separate 10 per cent U.S. tariff on softwood lumber. Even after the cut, the combined charge remains close to 35 per cent.

The new rate
The Canadian Press, citing the BC Lumber Trade Council, reported that the final rate is made up of a countervailing (anti-subsidy) duty of 14.11 per cent and an anti-dumping duty of 10.64 per cent, and that with the 10 per cent tariff Canadian softwood lumber now faces total import taxes of almost 35 per cent, down from 45 per cent. The review covers lumber shipped in 2024.

The table shows how the rate for most Canadian producers moved through the review. The earlier figures are the "all others" rates published by Global Affairs Canada and the B.C. government; the final figures are as reported by The Canadian Press.




Three companies were examined individually in the seventh review: Canfor, Resolute and West Fraser for anti-dumping, and Resolute and West Fraser for countervailing duties, according to Global Affairs Canada. Their company-specific final rates had not been posted on the federal or B.C. government pages as of October 15.
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Source: thecanadianwire.com