The plan sets four pillars — secure competitive wood fibre, invest in modernization and innovation, expand domestic and international markets, and support workers and communities, and will feed into a formal Forest Sector Strategy by the end of 2026.
Government weighs rent freeze through 2028 and bankruptcy moratorium for forest-sector firms.
Cedar and Spruce/Fir stud lumber rose year-on-year while cypress fell and softwood plywood held steady.
The proposal keeps an exemption process and sets July deadlines, while the determination cites illegal logging and timber laundering as factors that distort wood-product pricing.
Price for lumber exported from Brazil gained 1.8%.
Price for lumber exported from Chile decreased 9%.
Funding will support low-carbon wood technologies, mass timber housing, Indigenous participation and export diversification while ministers review Task Force recommendations
Compared with the previous month, production was up 13%.
Index remains unchanged from previous week and falls just $1 from one month ago.
Institutional investment, fast-growing Southern Yellow Pine and advanced sawmill technology are positioning the Southeast as a steady supplier for engineered structural products.
China's construction crisis and higher logistics costs have cut shipments, while Russia's downgraded economic outlook limits domestic absorption of growing supply.
Timber price declines may ease costs only with a lag and further closures are likely if the market doesn't improve.
Survey and industry data show firms improve efficiency, but sector productivity diverges from sawmills as technical change remains weak and variable.
Price for lumber imported to Japan grew only 0.2%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to Japan slid 1.8%.
The U.S. posts the steepest decline among the largest softwood lumber import markets, followed by Germany and China, while supplier volumes fall most for Canada, Russia, and Austria.
Imports of lumber to Kazakhstan upped 1.9%.
Compared with the previous month, production was up 2%.
Weekly and monthly decline totals $1, as the index remains virtually unchanged from both periods.
Canadian import taxes reach about 45% for many producers supplying U.S. builders.