Housing permits, a guide to future construction, rose 25.8% to 21,607 units; January–August starts were up 11% from a year earlier.
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Imports from South Korea fell to 3,258 metric tons in the year to June 2025, or 2.5% of EU consumption.
Vietnam remained the largest supplier as its share rose 8.3 pp; Canada had the largest decline, with shipments down 61%.
Vietnam remained South Korea’s largest supplier as its share fell 7.6 pp; China’s shipments rose 25% and Vietnam’s fell 25%
Imports of wood chips to South Korea rose 3%.
South Korea remained the largest buyer as its share rose 1 pp; Peru's purchases rose 1.5-fold and U.S. shipments fell 62%.
China stayed the largest destination as its share fell 4.2 pp; Turkey's purchases rose more than twofold and Germany's fell 9.9%.
China took 62% of Chile's wood pulp exports, United Arab Emirates shipments rose more than threefold and Japan's fell 13%.
Thailand gained 12 percentage points of South Korea's hardwood chips imports; South Korea imported 307 thousand tonnes.
Gains in China, Taiwan, Mexico, Pakistan, South Korea and Hong Kong offset only about 4% of the U.S. volume decline.
India took 73% of shipments.
Funding will support low-carbon wood technologies, mass timber housing, Indigenous participation and export diversification while ministers review Task Force recommendations
Japan and the United States were the largest destinations, accounting for about 25% and 23% of volume respectively.
Japan became the largest destination after U.S. duties hit Indonesia’s shipments.
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