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At the end of November, Western S-P-F demand was variable according to traders in the United States. Once-in-a-century flooding in the Pacific Northwest caused uncertainty to pervade the market as the week wore on. Some buyers busily scrambled to find wood amid the ensuing logistical chaos, while others cautiously sat on their inventories, hoping to…

As explained by Madison’s Lumber Reporter last week, the North America construction framing dimension softwood lumber market has changed forever. Following the massive flooding and infrastructure damage to transportation routes in southern British Columbia, which will take many months to repair, for the week ending November 26, 2021 industry players had not yet been able…

The lumber market has changed forever the week of November 19, 2021. At time of writing the south of the province of British Columbia is under a state-of-emergency due to relentless stormwater accumulating over the past month. That after record rainfall of 200% more than normal for the months of September and October. Transportation is…

Softwood Lumber Duty increase filed today on the US Federal Register, dated tomorrow: Dec 2, 2021 The next Administrative Review of the Softwood Lumber Duty is expected to be released during the first few months of next year and would take effect at the end of next year / the beginning of 2023.

A drought over summer followed by massive amounts more rain than usual, and 3 atmospheric rivers — which in one or two days brought volumes of rain equal to an entire wet month — when the ground was already saturated have caused extensive damage to transportation infrastructure all through British Columbia. More heavy rain started…