In the fourth quarter of 2011, the USA imported a total of 5.586m m³ of softwood lumber. The 7% increase against the year before is mainly the result of the growth in imports from Canada, which, according to the US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) turned out to be roughly 8% higher than in the same period of the year before at 5.415m m³. Softwood lumber imports from Europe, on the other hand, fell by roughly 4% to 50,513 m³, whereby imports from Germany dropped 19% to 27,227 m³ while those from Sweden were raised by 44% to 16,133 m³.
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