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There's actually an extraordinary gap between the two.

Having the same percentage of forests is not the same thing as having the same supply of renewable timber. You're forgetting about population density. The US has vastly more timber supply vs population, than Germany does.

US territory size is something like 26x the size of Germany, with just 4x the population difference.

304 million hectares of forests vs 330 million people in the US. A near 1 ratio for hectares per person.

11 million ha of forests vs 82 million people in Germany. A 0.13 ratio.

Now throw in Canada, which is an almost comical 347 million ha (and their modest domestic needs for 36 million people).

edit: adjusted the US figure to hectares