United States

Europeans continue to lose ground in the US

Article by Gerd Ebner (automatically translated) | 04.07.2024 - 14:43

In the first five months, the USA imported a constant amount of softwood sawn timber as in 2023: 14.4 million m³. Nevertheless, the Europeans are the big losers. They delivered 23% or 500,000 m³ less than in the previous year.

The Canadians increased again somewhat: they delivered 12.2 million m³ by the end of May compared to 11.7 million m³ in 2023.

The situation is significantly different for Germany, the number 2 supplier country: The German sawmill industry sold just under 900,000 m³, 23% less than in the previous year. The Swedes did not reduce deliveries quite as much: -11% to 420,000 m³.

In total, the Europeans delivered 1.7 million m³ in five months (2023: 2.2 million m³). As a result, the European share of US imports fell from 15% to only 12% this year.

All figures were collected by FAS.

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