Your strategy sounds like, "roll over and die".  In fact, B.C. has been working on the Asian market for some time with good result.  Not enough to displace U.S. export markets, but something to build on.  For some products, apparently, the U.S. does not have alternative suppliers. And a longstanding problem has been that not enough secondary processing of lumber takes place in B.C.  Ontario employs three times the number of people per cubic metre of timber harvested than B.C. does. (Source - http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/cpp/May1998/Delcourt.pdf )  So what's your idea?  Just take the job losses and live with it?