Permits for new single-family houses were 7.8% higher and those for two-family houses 21.7% higher in the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same period last year.
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The antidumping part is 6.40% after an offset for export subsidies, and the countervailing, or subsidy, part is 9.37%, up from 3.67% at the preliminary stage.
Price for wood furniture exported from Italian grew 26%.
Price for lumber exported from the EU to MENA rose 2%.
Price for lumber exported from Finnish to Algeria slipped 3%.
Price for logs exported from Lithuanian slid 5%.
Imports of plywood to the EU slid 1.2%.
Price for wood pellets imported to the EU rose 5%.
Price for lumber exported from Finnish contracted 6%.
Price for pulpwood imported to Finland slid 3%.
Price for lumber exported from Swedish gained 1.2%.
The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.
Price for lumber imported to Kazakhstan contracted 10%.
Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to continue suspending liquidation of entries made on or after May 27, 2026, and to collect cash deposits at the final rate.
Custom cabinet sales rise 12.2%, semi-custom fall 9.0% and stock fall 13.6%, while cabinet quantity drops 11.4%.
Imports of newsprint paper to Egypt rose 1.1%.
Vietnam remained the largest supplier as its share rose 8.3 pp; Canada had the largest decline, with shipments down 61%.
Paper manufacturers' sales rose 1.0% to C$2.57 billion.
Vietnam remained South Korea’s largest supplier as its share fell 7.6 pp; China’s shipments rose 25% and Vietnam’s fell 25%
Final-demand producer prices rise 1.3% month over month and 6.3% year over year.