Expedited first five-year review finds dumping would likely continue if the order was revoked, with weighted-average dumping margins up to 231.60% for imports from China.
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For delivery timber, prices increased on sawlogs and decreased on pulpwood.
Volatile mortgage rates, weather disruptions, and cautious housing demand weigh on results and margins, with the largest pricing and gross-margin pressure in engineered wood products.
Lumber sales realizations rise 13% from fourth-quarter averages and oriented strand board realizations rise 8%.
Index drops 5% month-over-month from $552.
Price for wood pellets exported from Indonesia upped 3%.
The reviews cover Canadian softwood lumber and uncoated paper from Brazil and Portugal, and list the companies subject to review.
Price for particleboard exported from Turkey increased slightly 0.6%.
High financing costs, construction-input prices and currency weakness are expected to limit new procurement.
Imports of logs to Japan dipped 1.2%.
Wooden housing starts decrease 26.9% while monthly figures rise from February levels.
Mortgage rates above 6% and tariff uncertainty shape 2026 operating plans and input-cost expectations.
Price for wood furniture imported to Japan slipped 4%.
Price for plywood imported to Japan gained 1.9%.
Price for wood pellets exported from Vietnam to Japan upped 1.1%.
Price for wood chips exported from Vietnam to Japan decreased slightly 0.6%.
Price for lumber imported to Japan increased slightly 0.4%.
Price for wood pellets imported to Japan slipped 1.5%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to Japan dipped 1.8%.
More than half of tracked metros post annual price declines, with Denver the weakest.