A strong ruble, weaker demand in China and rail-logistics bottlenecks are the main factors behind the projected decline.
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Price for lumber exported from Finland to China upped 3%.
Price for lumber exported from Thailand to China gained 1.2%.
Price for lumber exported from Belarus to China slipped 4%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to China grew only 0.9%.
Price for lumber exported from New Zealand gained 1.8%.
Exports of lumber from the EU to Egypt fell marginally 0.5%.
Price for lumber exported from the EU rose 4%.
Benchmark index increases by $3 from both previous week and one month ago.
Price for lumber exported from Sweden to Morocco slipped 1.6%.
Price for lumber exported from Latvia expanded 18%.
Price for lumber exported from Finland to Algeria slid 1.4%.
Price for lumber exported from Sweden upped 4%.
Price for lumber exported from the EU to MENA decreased slightly 0.7%.
Price for lumber exported from Finland slipped 4%.
Price for lumber exported from Norway rose 1.5%.
Price for lumber exported from the U.S. to India grew only 0.3%.
Investment expands CCA and CA-C marine capacity across coastal North Carolina and the Tidewater/Virginia Beach market.
Softwood lumber prices remained 5.1% above year-earlier levels, while final-demand producer prices rose 6.4% from a year earlier.
The first operation outside Brazil will use local pine to make finished export goods and will start with 150 employees, rising to more than 400 at full development.