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Current Softwood Lumber Prices Compared to Recent and Historical Highs: Dec 2018
Trading of US and Canadian softwood lumber last week continued it’s usual annual slide to seasonal holiday sawmill closures and curtailments. The price of benchmark Western Spruce-Pine-Fir KD 2×4 #2&Btr construction framing dimension lumber commodity stayed level with the previous week, as did many other standard North American homebuilding wood materials. Friday’s print in Madison’s…
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British Columbia Current Forestry Trade Mission Visit to China Abruptly Cancelled
In very surprising news Sunday, the currently ongoing British Columbia trade mission to Asia — attended by the BC Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development as well as forestry company executives — was abruptly cancelled. The trip is expected to be rescheduled. The delegation led by BC Forestry Minister Doug Donaldson…
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Conifex Cuts Production: Fort St. James, BC, Sawmill
Another unfortunate addition to the list of permanent and temporary softwood lumber manufacturing sawmills in British Columbia, due to difficulties sourcing logs for timber processing, Tuesday Conifex, out of Vancouver, BC, announced another of it’s sawmills will be closing. Conifex’ Fort St. James, BC, sawmill will be temporarily reducing its production from January 1, 2019,…
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Softwood Lumber Dimension Prices Stop Falling, Some Even Pop Back Up
The best description to characterize the movement of North American construction framing dimension softwood lumber wholesaler prices last week is “waffling”. Indeed, benchmark Western Spruce-Pine-Fir KD 2×4 #2&Btr price landed exactly where it had been two weeks ago, with Friday’s print in Madison’s Lumber Reporter at US$354 mfbm, having lost 1% (or $4) from the…
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NAFTA Dispute Resolution Forms 5-Member Panel: US Softwood Lumber Tariffs on Canada
A binational panel has been formed to review the battle between Canada and the United States over softwood lumber, with three Canadians and two Americans appointed to make a ruling under NAFTA’s contentious Chapter 19 dispute-resolution mechanism, according to the Globe and Mail Tuesday. The issue of Canadian lumber shipments into the United States is…
