Canadian lumber and plywood giant acquired by American company
Although the United States has reduced the tariffs levied on Canadian lumber due to the WTO's rule, Canadian lumber [...]
January 18, 2021
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New Year 2021 starts off with rising lumber prices in North America
In the first full week back to work of 2021, the latest data of housing construction and home sales out [...]
January 14, 2021
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Declining world softwood lumber trade in 2020
In the first three quarters of 2020, the largest softwood lumber flows in the world declined. [...]
January 14, 2021
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Sharp recovery in Sweden’s softwood lumber exports to Europe
During September 2020, Swedish exporters increased their supply of softwood lumber to European customers by 28%. The total volume of [...]
January 13, 2021
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European trade of wood chips has gone up substantially as sawmills have ramped up production
Softwood lumber production in Europe has increased steadily increased over the past five years. Consequently, additional volumes of sawmill by [...]
January 4, 2021
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N. America: Unrelenting strong demand sends softwood lumber prices higher to end 2020
This week marks the normal seasonal end to softwood lumber manufacturing across most of North America annually. Sawmills in Eastern [...]
December 18, 2020
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Canada to challenge U.S. softwood lumber export duties through WTO
Canada said it will be considering “all of its legal options” to challenge Canadian softwood lumber export duties unveiled by [...]
December 14, 2020
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Finland: Sawmills perform weak in main markets; softwood lumber exports plunge 20%
Finland's softwood lumber exports to the world fell by almost 20% in the first nine months of the year [...]
December 8, 2020
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Continued unseasonably strong demand sends N. American lumber prices higher
U.S. housing starts were mostly flat in 2019. At this time last year, softwood lumber sales improved markedly and [...]
December 4, 2020
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North American softwood lumber prices recover as demand improves
It’s unbelievable for this time of year and if someone had predicted it a month ago they would have [...]
November 26, 2020
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