Dive summary:

• 84 Lumber is pushing a "We Build American" campaign to encourage home builders to do the research they need to do to find domestic materials at little or no extra cost, creating jobs in suppliers' towns in the process.
• The company announced the program at the recent International Builders' Show, where President Maggie Hardy Magerko said the industry "can build homes with approximately 95% American-made materials and products, have a higher quality home, and maintain and create American jobs – all with little impact on overall building costs.”
• 84 Lumber says that more than 180 companies have signed on to the initiative thus far.

From the article:

"We Build American" is the creation of Delaware builder Marnie Oursler, who found that the cost of using American-made materials is within one-half of 1% of the cost of using foreign-made materials. ...