In the first two months of 2025, US softwood lumber imports were down by 10%. This decrease is mainly the result of reduced imports from Canada. However, the US also purchased much smaller volumes from several European countries. Read more ...

In 2024, Canada exported a constant 28 million m³ of softwood lumber to the US. The Holzkurier’s most recent analysis of global lumber trade shows that that corresponds to the cumulative volume of the following eleven trade flows. Read more ...

By introducing sweeping punitive tariffs on imports from all US trade partners, US President Donald Trump has started a tariff war for good. However, some goods, such as wood products, are exempt for the time being. Read more ...

Solid structural timber remains the most volatile glued timber product in 2025, too. Its price continued to rise in March. Read more ...

Cross-laminated timber producers report a positive development of orders, which was also accompanied by a price increase in the first quarter. Read more ...

At the end of March, Japanese forestry and timber company Sumitomo Forestry acquired 100% of the shares of the sawmill in Plain Dealing/US from Canadian Teal Jones Group. Read more ...

For the Finnish forestry industry, 2024 was a year characterized by increased harvest volumes and, most of all, sharp increases in prices. Read more ...

The price increases of the past four weeks have caused the Holzkurier’s sales indicator to skyrocket. Month on month, it has risen by four percentage points, reaching 102.1% in March 2025. Read more ...

Since the start of the second half of 2024, the Austrian price index for spruce and fir log wood has seen an uninterrupted upward trend. In January 2025, it reached a level last recorded in the spring of 2023. Read more ...

German sawmills continue their negative trend. Last year, softwood lumber production output decreased again after 2022 and 2023. The fourth quarter of 2024 also marked the weakest three-month period of the past six years. Read more ...