US imports of softwood lumber in the second quarter of 2011 turned out to be 15% lower than in the same quarter of last year at a total of 5.295m m³. The rate of decline was also considerably greater than in the first quarter of this year (-9%). The decisive factor for this repeated reduction in volumes was the roughly 16% decline in softwood lumber imports from Canada at 5.031m m³. Imports from South America, on the other hand, rose by 13% to 133,645 m³ and shipments from Europe even increased by roughly a third to 141,754 m³. Most conspicuous amongst the European supplier countries is Sweden, whose deliveries of softwood lumber to the USA were stepped up by 81% during the course of the second quarter to 32,829 m³. This brought Swedish imports close to the volume of deliveries from Germany, which were 19% higher than in the same period of last year at 38,728 m³.
US softwood lumber imports still heading downhill in Q2
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