U.S. softwood lumber imports fell 9% in 2025 from a year earlier to 30.03 million m3, the fourth consecutive annual decline, while the average import price rose 4% to $230 per m3, according to Lesprom Analytics. Imports peaked in 2005 at 57.37 million m3, almost double the 30.03 million m3 imported in 2025.
Canada remained the largest supplier with 82% of U.S. import volume, shipping 24.62 million m3, down 12%, at an average price of $195 per m3, unchanged from a year earlier. Germany supplied 6% with 1.95 million m3, up 2%, and its average price rose 14% to $322 per m3. Sweden supplied 4% with 1.11 million m3, up 21%, and its average price increased 2% to $349 per m3.
Chile shipped 316 thousand m3, up 17%, at $730 per m3, up 4%, while New Zealand supplied 267 thousand m3, up 17%, at $790 per m3, down 8%. Brazil delivered 408 thousand m3, down 6%, at $324 per m3, up 1%, and Austria shipped 324 thousand m3, down 13%, at $299 per m3, up 3%. Latvia supplied 150 thousand m3, up 30%, at $328 per m3, down 1%, while Argentina shipped 135 thousand m3, up 75%, at $309 per m3, down 2%. Finland supplied 120 thousand m3, up 37%, at $419 per m3, down 13%. Image: United States softwood lumber imports from January 2005 to December 2025, showing the 2025 year-on-year decline and the longer-term drop from the 2005 peak / Lesprom Analytics
By wood species, Spruce, Pine, Fir (SPF) accounted for 73% of import volume at 21.35 million m3 with an average price of $182 per m3. Spruce and fir made up 11% at 3.28 million m3 priced at $307 per m3, while pine represented 7% at 1.97 million m3 priced at $478 per m3. Cedar accounted for 2% at 588 thousand m3 priced at $227 per m3, and Hemlock and Fir (HEM-FIR) represented 1% at 382 thousand m3 priced at $194 per m3. Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) accounted for 1% at 315 thousand m3 priced at $312 per m3, and hemlock represented 1% at 272 thousand m3 priced at $189 per m3.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s final combined countervailing and antidumping duty rates on Canadian softwood lumber, set at 26% to 48% with most exporters assigned 35%, contributed to a sharper decline in imports late in 2025.
