Prices rose 0.2% from April and 2.5% from a year earlier, while manufactured-products prices increased 4% year over year.
Mercados
Price for bleached kraft pulp exported from Finland upped 4%.
Price for newsprint imported to India upped 3%.
Imports of wood pellets to Belgium lost 13%.
Price for lumber exported from the EU rose 4%.
Price for wood veneer imported to India increased slightly 0.4%.
Price for logs imported to India grew only 0.7%.
Price for bleached kraft pulp exported from the EU gained 3%.
Slower household formation, reduced immigration, weak home sales, and a shortage of low-cost housing are expected to weigh on demand and affordability.
Price for wood furniture exported from Italy expanded 7%.
Housing starts ran at a 1.18 million annualized pace in May as multifamily starts dropped; single-family starts were 882,000 units.
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 cork and articles of cork exported from Portugal contracted 12%.
Price for plywood imported to the UK lost 30%.
Price for lumber exported from Latvia expanded 18%.
Price for wood chips imported to the EU contracted 17%.
Price for logs exported from Lithuania lost 8%.
Price for lumber exported from Finland to Algeria slid 1.4%.
Price for pulpwood imported to Finland expanded 17%.