The USA purchased definitely more softwood lumber from Europe again in October than it had in the same month of 2019. At 333,513 m³, the imported volume of lumber was 60 % higher than a year earlier. The growth rate had still been 54 % in the first nine months.
At 146,097 m³, the shipments from Germany were only up by 27 %. The data from the US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), represent that imports from Sweden, on the other hand, were doubled to 83,060 m³ and those from Romania were more than trebled to 44,053 m³. Due to the higher prices, the import value increased up to130 % to US$117.5m, which shows an increase of almost 44% in the arithmetical import value to €352.5m³.
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