USA’s sawn-softwood imports from Sweden halved

During the first quarter, despite a predominantly weak course of business, the USA increased its softwood lumber imports from Europe by 42% to 1.494m m³ (Jan.-March 2022: 1.051m m³). Imports from Canada, by contrast, dipped 8% to 6.628m m³ (7.199m m³). According to figures of the US Department of Agriculture, Foreign...

In the first quarter of 2023, at a total of 492,263 m³ (Jan.-March 2022: 999,248 m³), Japanese softwood lumber imports from Europe dropped by half vis à vis the preceding year. According to trade statistics published by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, deliveries from Sweden declined by 46.5% to 130,606 m³ (243,978...

The USA imported 400,428 m³ (Feb. 2022: 424,047 m³) of sawn softwood from Europe in February 2023, roughly 6% less than in the same month of last year. The main reason for the reduction was the halving in the export volume from Sweden, which fell from 107,741 m³ to 53,459 m³ along with the roughly one-third lower...