[marcosdumay]

> We're not cutting down forests for it, either.

The largest share of the illegal wood extracted from Brazil goes to the US.

[nradov]

The illegal hardwood is not used for residential framing or sheathing. It has nothing to do with fire resistance or insurance.

[marcosdumay]

Most illegal wood is not hardwood.

What is not to say that most of the wood in the US is illegal. It's probably a small share. But some of your houses do pretty much chop forests down. (And your government does help fight that, but it's hard to completely stop it.)