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The Trump administration\u2019s latest tariff promise on softwood lumber may disrupt the supply chain of toilet paper and paper towels, Bloomberg reported <\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The U.S. relies heavily on Canadian northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp to make these bathroom and kitchen staples, with about 2 million tons imported last year. But now the administration plans to double duties on Canadian softwood lumber to 27 percent, with the possibility of additional levies pushing the rate to over 50 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These tariffs not only risk higher prices and supply constraints, but they could even result in toilet paper shortages. Not to mention a cascading effect on the supply chain. In fact, NBSK constitutes about 30 percent of standard U.S. toilet paper and half of a typical paper towel. \u201cSome of these mills in the United States, some of the big branded products, not only want softwood pulp from Canada, they want softwood pulp from this particular mill\u2014they\u2019ve been using it for 30 years and they will not change,\u201d Brian McClay, chairman of TTOBMA which tracks the global pulp market, said. \u201cIf Canadian pulp mills close because they don\u2019t have the fiber supply, I can\u2019t think of any other option for them\u2014they just can\u2019t switch the recipe around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration\u2019s latest tariff promise on softwood lumber may disrupt the supply chain of toilet paper and paper towels, Bloomberg reported . The U.S. relies heavily on Canadian northern bleached softwood kraft… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"10719","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDNcL1RvaWxldC1QYXBlci1TdXBwbHkud2VicD9maXQ9Mjc1JTJDMTgzJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiVHJ1bXBcdTIwMTlzIE5ldyBDYW5hZGEgVGFyaWZmIFRocmVhdGVucyBUb2lsZXQgUGFwZXIgU3VwcGx5IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.pspEW-HvMIoCDZjBNDvsgMWoFcRA-8ZVjwjNbjzWS4sMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":54811,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Toilet-Paper-Supply.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10719],"tags":[11222],"class_list":["post-54810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump","tag-trumps-new-canada-tariff-threatens-toilet-paper-supply"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54812,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54810\/revisions\/54812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}