Hardwood pulpwood led the gains, up 3.6% from September, followed by hardwood sawlogs, up 3.1%.
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Sawmills welcome the approach but warn that an unsettled definition of boreal natural forest could still curb log supplies.
Compared with the previous month, production was down 3.4%.
Hardwood logs gained 4.4% and total log imports into the region fell 2% from August.
Hrvatske šume, which manages about three quarters of the country's forests, cites rising labor and production costs and prices in neighboring countries.
The company expects lumber prices to improve in the fourth quarter.
Most of the money, C$4 billion, would finance large new mills and biorefineries through a new fund at Export Development Canada.
A pilot at the company's new sawline showed that up to 4% of the volume from final fellings can move from pulpwood to sawn products.
Standing-sale spruce log prices were unchanged from August, while pulpwood prices fell 2.1% to 3.3%.
The forest owners' cooperative is lifting pulpwood prices by a total of 50 kroner per cubic meter this autumn and spruce sawlog prices by 30 kroner from Nov. 1, citing low mill inventories and strong demand for spruce.
The timberland owner expects fourth-quarter lumber realizations to ease from the highest level since 2022 and will buy back up to $300 million more of its shares.
Price for logs exported from Canadian expanded 19.4%.
Exports of logs from the U.S. increased slightly 0.5%.
Spruce and fir pulpwood led the gains, up 0.4% from August, followed by spruce and fir pulpwood and groundwood (mixed price), up 0.4%.
Prices charged for forestry and logging services were 7.2% higher than a year earlier.
Forty-three forestry associations say higher diesel prices add more than $920 million a year to the cost of hauling U.S. timber. A second coalition of 46 groups led by forest landowners made the same request a day later.
The group tracked logs from eight clear-cut continuity forests to SCA sawmills that supply the makers of its IVAR and HEJNE pine shelving. IKEA says the harvests were legal and FSC-compliant, and SCA calls the report misleading.
Spruce sawlogs posted the only gain, up 6.1% from the second quarter.
Metsä Group had earlier suspended wood purchases from the data center sites over doubts about the timber's origin, and Finland's supervisory agency halted preparatory work at Muhos and Kajaani in October.
China remained the largest buyer as its share slipped 2.7 pp, India's shipments surged 94.8%, and Taiwan's dropped 5.5%.