The Vancouver Sun reports in its Tuesday edition that U.S. builders already pay a premium for B.C. spruce, pine and fir lumber and could soon face additional tariffs after President Donald Trump's proclamation that America does not need the province's wood. The Sun's Derrick Penner writes that builders like it particularly for framing walls because Canadian spruce, pine and fir is lighter, stronger and tighter-grained than U.S. alternatives. U.S. builders also need it because American mills still do not make enough lumber to fill U.S. needs, despite Mr. Trump's declaration that "we have more lumber than they do." Mr. Trump, in his order, stated the U.S. "has an abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs." However, lumber producers would have to build the infrastructure needed -- roads, bridges and transportation nodes -- to start logging, with big questions over where the labour to do so is going to come from. New sawmills are major capital investments that cost $300-million (U.S.) to construct. There is also the question of who would be willing to build a mill not knowing what the rules of the game are. One expert said, "Are tariffs on or off, for how long?"