The benchmark was down 11.3% year on year, while U.S. market import volume rose 1.4% month on month.
Lumber
Exports of lumber from New Zealand dipped 5%.
Exports of lumber from Belarus to China rose 3%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to China rose 4%.
Lower electricity prices, weaker wood-product earnings and cautious construction demand affect operations, while board and paper deliveries improve.
Manufactured-products producer prices rose 3.1% year over year in July.
Prices rose 6.0% from June and remained up 12.0% from a year earlier; Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 12.4% year over year.
Price for lumber imported to India slid 1.3%.
Index drops $22 weekly and $12 from one month ago.
Price for lumber exported from Latvia gained 2%.
The three-day pause gives negotiators time to finalize a broader agreement covering market access and other bilateral trade issues, with Canadian lumber among the products exposed to the planned additional U.S. tariff.
Funding will expand lumber drying capacity, develop biomass energy projects and advance wood-residue products.
The grants fund sawmill reopenings, equipment upgrades, biomass systems and mass timber projects across the state.
Price for lumber exported from Lithuania upped 1.0%.
Price for lumber exported from the EU downed 1.3%.
The project will test prefabricated structures designed for transport, rapid assembly and cold-weather deployment.
Exports of lumber from Norway upped 4%.
Price for lumber exported from Finland to Algeria slipped 1.5%.
Price for lumber exported from Sweden declined only 0.7%.
Canadian softwood lumber producers expect difficult conditions through 2026 as weaker demand, production curtailments and U.S. trade costs pressure operations.