President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to find ways to bolster U.S. timber and lumber production, citing "significant vulnerabilities" in the country's wood supply chain. 

Trump issued a pair of executive orders on March 1 — the first directed the Department of Commerce (DOC) to conduct a wide-ranging review of U.S. lumber and timber imports, with the second calling on federal leaders to look into ways to increase domestic wood production. In the months to come, the DOC will also investigate whether lumber is being unfairly dumped into U.S. markets, while a handful of other federal agencies will search for ways to get around environmental regulations to allow for logging in more than 280 million acres of protected national forests and public lands. 

"The United States has an abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs, but heavy-handed federal policies have prevented full utilization of these resources and made us reliant on foreign producers," the second of the two orders reads. 

This comes as Trump prepares to hit Canada, Mexico and China with new tariffs scheduled to take effect on March 4. According to data from the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. imported nearly half of its forest products — including lumber, wood pulp, industrial paper and more — from Canada in 2021, as well as 13% from China, and 4.2% from Mexico. Around 25% of U.S. forest product exports went to Canada in that same year, while 16.4% went to Mexico, and 11.7% went to China.