A draft of the ‘Strong American Wood Act’, published on 22 October, provides, amongst other things, for retaliatory measures in response to the EU Deforestation Regulation that the US considers discriminatory....

Federal buildings in the United States would have to use domestic timber under a bipartisan bill, even as the country imported US$47 billion in wood, pulp, and paper products in the past year. That is according to a summary of the Strong American Wood Act from Bruce Westerman, the Arkansas Republican who introduced the bill last week with Washington State Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

Elsewhere in the bill, Westerman wants a statutory US response to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which his office says unfairly targets American wood products. Wood products and wood-look-alike imports would face secondary inspections, with importers required to disclose their full chemical inputs.
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Source:  woodcentral.com.au